Part 784

Beauty is Nature's brag. Milton.

3. A game at cards similar to bluff. Chesterfield.

Brag (&?;), a. [See Brag, v. i.] Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. [Archaic]

A brag young fellow. B. Jonson.

Brag, adv. Proudly; boastfully. [Obs.] Fuller.

Brag`ga*do"cio (&?;), n. [From Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Spenser's "Faërie Queene."] 1. A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

2. Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

Brag"gard*ism (&?;), n. [See Braggart.] Boastfulness; act of bragging. Shak.

Brag"gart (&?;), n. [OF. bragard flaunting, vain, bragging. See Brag, v. i.] A boaster.

O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

Brag"gart, a. Boastful. -- Brag"gart*ly, adv.

Brag"ger (&?;), n. One who brags; a boaster.

Brag"get (&?;), n. [OE. braket, bragot, fr. W. bragawd, bragod, fr. brag malt.] A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Brag"ging`ly (&?;), adv. Boastingly.

Brag"less, a. Without bragging. [R.] Shak.

Brag"ly, adv. In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly. [Obs.] Spenser.

Brah"ma (&?;), n. [See Brahman.]

1. (Hindoo Myth.) The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

According to the Hindoo religious books, Brahma (with the final a short), or Brahm, is the Divine Essence, the One First Cause, the All in All, while the personal gods, Brahmá (with the final a long), Vishnu, and Siva, are emanations or manifestations of Brahma the Divine Essence.

2. (Zoöl.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra.

{ Brah"man (&?;), Brah"min (&?;), } n.; pl. Brahmans, Brahmins. [Skr. Brhmana (cf. Brahman worship, holiness; the God Brahma, also Brahman): cf. F. Brahmane, Brachmane, Bramine, L. Brachmanae, -manes, - mani, pl., Gr. &?;, pl.] A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.

Brahman bull (Zoöl.), the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindoos.

Brah"man*ess (&?;), n. A Brahmani.

Brah"man*i (&?;), n. [Fem. of Brahman.] Any Brahman woman. [Written also Brahmanee.]

{ Brah*man"ic (&?;), -ic*al (&?;), Brah*min"ic (&?;), *ic*al (&?;),} a. Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship.

{ Brah"man*ism (&?;), Brah"min*ism (&?;), } n. The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.

{ Brah"man*ist (&?;), Brah"min*ist (&?;), } n. An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.

Brah"mo*ism (&?;), n. The religious system of Brahmo-somaj. Balfour.