English English Dictionary

A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.

Having short wings.

A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

Of a short form.

A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

Alt. of Brachyurous

One of the Brachyura.

Of or pertaining to the Brachyura.

Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind.

of Brace

Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss.

The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced.

Salt or brackish water.

An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.

A brake or fern.

The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.

A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.

One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.