English English Dictionary

The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.

Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.

One versed in bryology.

That part of botany which relates to mosses.

A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored, substance, and is emetic and cathartic.

The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.

See Cryptogamia.

A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.

One of the Bryozoa.

Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.

An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).

The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

A lantern; also, the moon.

Strong malt liquor.

To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.

A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.

A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

Resembling a buffalo.

A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.

To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.