English English Dictionary

To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.

To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.

A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands.

A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.

A quick motion; a start.

A fancy; freak; caprice.

To start; to awake.

Deceitful.

of Braid

of Braid

The act of making or using braids.

Braids, collectively; trimming.

Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.

To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

To conceive; to understand.

To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.

The affections; fancy; imagination.

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.