Part 1432

<hw>Brush"wood</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Small branches of trees cut off.</def>

<h1>Brushy</h1> <Xpage=186>

<hw>Brush"y</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.</def>

<h1>Brusk</h1> <Xpage=186>

<hw>Brusk</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Brusque</er>.</def>

<h1>Brusque</h1> <Xpage=186>

<hw>Brusque</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>brusque</ets>, from It. <ets>brusco</ets> brusque, tart, sour, perh. fr. L. (<ets>vitis</ets>) <ets>labrusca</ets> wild (vine); or cf. OHG. <ets>bruttisc</ets> grim, fr. <ets>brutti</ets> terror.]</ety> <def>Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; <as>as, a <ex>brusque</ex> man; a <ex>brusque</ex> style.</as></def>

<h1>Brusqueness</h1> <Xpage=186>

<hw>Brusque"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness.</def>

<i>Brit. Quar.</i>

<h1>Brussels</h1> <Xpage=186>

<hw>Brus"sels</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.</def>

<cs><col>Brussels carpet</col>, <cd>a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern.</cd> -- <col>Brussels ground</col>, <cd>a name given to the handmade ground of real Brussels lace. It is very costly because of the extreme fineness of the threads.</cd> -- <col>Brussels lace</col>, <cd>an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, <i>Brussels<i> point, <i>Brussels<i> ground, <i>Brussels<i> wire ground.</cd> -- <col>Brussels net</col>, <cd>an imitation of Brussels ground, made by machinery.</cd> -- <col>Brussels point</col>. <cd>See <er>Point lace</er>.</cd> -- <col>Brussels sprouts</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or "sprouts," each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage.</cd> -- <col>Brussels wire ground</col>, <cd>a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched.</cd></cs>

<h1>Brustle</h1> <Xpage=186>

<hw>Brus"tle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Brustled</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Brustling</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>brustlien</ets> and <ets>brastlien</ets>, AS. <ets>brastlian</ets>, fr. <ets>berstan</ets> to burst, akin to G. <ets>prasseln</ets> to crackle. See <er>Burst</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Gower.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make a show of fireceness or defiance; to bristle.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<cs><col>To brustle up</col>, <cd>to bristle up. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Otway.</i>

<h1>Brustle</h1> <Xpage=186>

<hw>Brus"tle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A bristle.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Prov.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Brut</h1> <Xpage=186>

<hw>Brut</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>brouter</ets>, OF. <ets>brouster</ets>. See <er>Browse</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>To browse.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Evelyn.</i>

<h1>Brut</h1> <Xpage=186>

<hw>Brut</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Birt</er>.</def>