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A copier of a manuscript.
The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.
Alt. of Briar
Set with briers.
Full of briers; thorny.
A place where briers grow.
A bridge.
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.
A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.
To form into a brigade, or into brigades.
of Brigade
An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.
of Brigade
A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.
A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter.
Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.
A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.
Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
Brigandage.