Brutality (n.) The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
Brutality (n.) An inhuman act.
Brutalization (n.) The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.
Brutalized (imp. & p. p.) of Brutalize
Brutalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brutalize
Brutalize (v. t.) To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
Brutalize (v. i.) To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
Brutally (adv.) In a brutal manner; cruelly.
Brute (a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
Brute (a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
Brute (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
Brute (a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
Brute (a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
Brute (n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
Brute (n.) A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
Brute (v. t.) To report; to bruit.
Brutely (adv.) In a rude or violent manner.
Bruteness (n.) Brutality.
Bruteness (n.) Insensibility.
Brutified (imp. & p. p.) of Brutify
Brutifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brutify
Brutify (v. t.) To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.
Brutish (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
Brutism (n.) The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.
Bruting (n.) Browsing.
Bryological (a.) Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.
Bryologist (n.) One versed in bryology.
Bryology (n.) That part of botany which relates to mosses.
Bryonin (n.) 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.
Bryony (n.) 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.
Bryophyta (n. pl.) See Cryptogamia.
Bryozoa (n. pl.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.
Bryozoan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.
Bryozoan (n.) One of the Bryozoa.
Bryozoum (n.) 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.).
Buansuah (n.) The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.
Buat (n.) A lantern; also, the moon.
Bub (n.) Strong malt liquor.
Bub (n.) A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.
Bub (v. t.) To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
Bubale (n.) A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.
Bubaline (a.) Resembling a buffalo.
Bubble (n.) A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
Bubble (n.) A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.
Bubble (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.
Bubble (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
Bubble (n.) The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
Bubble (n.) Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble.
Bubble (n.) A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.
Bubbled (imp. & p. p.) of Bubble
Bubbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bubble
Bubble (n.) To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
Bubble (n.) To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
Bubble (n.) To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
Bubbler (v. t.) To cheat; to deceive.
Bubbler (n.) One who cheats.
Bubbler (n.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.
Bubble shell () A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
Bubbling Jock () The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
Bubbly (a.) Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.
Bubby (n.) A woman's breast.
Bubby (n.) Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.
Buboes (pl. ) of Bubo
Bubo (n.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
Bubonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
Bubonocele (n.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
Bubukle (n.) A red pimple.
Buccal (a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.
Buccaneer (n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Buccaneer (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Buccaneerish (a.) Like a buccaneer; piratical.
Buccinal (a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.
Buccinator (n.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.
Buccinoid (a.) Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.
Buccinum (n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).
Bucentaur (n.) A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.
Bucentaur (n.) The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.
Buceros (n.) A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.
Bucholzite (n.) Same as Fibrolite.
Buchu (n.) A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves.
Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
Buck (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Bucked (imp. & p. p.) of Buck
Bucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buck
Buck (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
Buck (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
Buck (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
Buck (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
Buck (n.) A male Indian or negro.
Buck (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
Buck (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
Buck (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
Buck (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
Buck (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
Buck (n.) The beech tree.
Buck-basket (n.) A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.
Buck bean () A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.
Buckboard (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.
Bucker (n.) One who bucks ore.