📖 B — The English dictionary · page 51

brotherly — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Like a brother, or showing the kindness and loyalty that brothers owe each other.↗ Example: Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea, for four, I will not reverse it: because they delivered up a whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant.↗ (Prophets AMO.1.9, JPS 1917)↗

broughtest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «broughtest» means «you brought», a form of «bring»: To bring is to carry something to a place where someone is: «Bring your book to school».↗ Example: And Moses said unto the LORD: 'When the Egyptians shall hear — for Thou broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them —↗ (Torah NUM.14.13, JPS 1917) · And the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have dealt corruptly;↗ (Torah EXO.32.7, JPS 1917)

brow — Everyday, meaning 1: Your brow is your forehead, the part of your face above your eyes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A brow is an eyebrow: «She raised her brows».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The brow of a hill is the top of it, where it starts to slope down.↗ Example: He wiped the sweat from his brow.↗ · She frowned and her brow wrinkled.↗ · The car slowed down at the brow of the hill.↗ · Grandad raised his brows in surprise.↗ · With a furrowed brow, Tom stared at the maths problem.↗ · We could see the sea from the brow of the hill.↗ · Perspiration hung like beads on his brow.↗ · Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; (Prophets ISA.48.4, JPS 1917)↗

brown — Everyday, meaning 1: Brown is the colour of chocolate, wood or soil.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To brown food is to cook it until its outside turns brown, like toast or onions.↗ Example: There are 12 brown and 7 white eggs.↗ · She has 4 brown dogs and 2 black dogs.↗ · How many of the 30 bears are brown?↗ · 9 brown cows are in the barn.↗ · The leaves turn brown and fall in autumn.↗ · He has brown hair and brown eyes.↗ · Wrap the parcel in brown paper.↗ · Brown the onions in a pan before adding the soup.↗ · What beautiful brown spots on your face!↗

brownie — Everyday, meaning 1: A small square of rich, soft chocolate cake, often with nuts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Brownie: a younger member of the Girl Guides or Girl Scouts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (folklore) A small kind elf that secretly helps with housework at night.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Brownie points (informal): imaginary credit for doing something to please someone.↗ Example: Mum baked a tray of chocolate brownies.↗ · We cut the tray into 24 brownies.↗ · My sister goes to Brownies on Tuesday nights.↗ · If 3 children share 12 brownies, each gets 4.↗ · Doing the dishes will earn you brownie points.↗ · In the old story, a brownie cleaned the kitchen while the family slept.↗ · ‘It is I, the brownie of the lake,’ replied the voice.↗

brownish — Everyday, meaning 1: Slightly brown; of a colour that is close to brown but not quite.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Brown mixed with another colour, as in brownish-green or brownish-red.↗ Example: The pond water looked brownish after the rain.↗ · The Water Rat's coat was a soft brownish colour.↗ · The leaves turn brownish in autumn.↗ · We found a brownish rock with white stripes.↗ · Her eyes are brownish-green.↗ · The old photo had gone brownish with age.↗ · Mole saw a brownish shape moving among the reeds.↗ · The bread was toasted until it was brownish on top.↗

browse — Everyday, meaning 1: To look through things in a relaxed way, without looking for something particular: «browse in a bookshop».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computing) To look at web pages on the internet: «browse the web».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of animals) To feed on leaves and twigs of bushes and trees: «Giraffes browse on acacia trees.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) A relaxed look: «have a browse».↗ Example: I like to browse in the library on Saturdays.↗ · We browsed the web for facts about volcanoes.↗ · «Can I help you?»↗ «No thanks, I'm just browsing.»↗ · Giraffes browse on the top leaves of trees.↗ · Have a browse through this catalogue.↗ · Only browse websites your teacher says are safe.↗ · Weary of seeking his way, he flung himself down under a tree, leaving his horse to browse at will, and fell asleep.↗

browser — Everyday, meaning 1: A browser is a computer program used to look at websites on the internet, such as Chrome, Safari or Firefox.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A browser is a person who looks around a shop or at things slowly without planning to buy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In nature, a browser is an animal that eats leaves and shoots from trees and bushes, like a giraffe or a deer.↗ Example: Open the browser and go to the school website.↗ · My browser has too many tabs open.↗ · Clear your browser history on the library computer.↗ · The shopkeeper said, «Browsers welcome».↗ · A giraffe is a browser that eats leaves from tall trees.↗ · The page looks different in another browser.↗

browsing — Everyday, meaning 1: Looking through things in a relaxed way without searching for anything special, as in shops or books.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Looking at pages on the internet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of animals) Eating leaves and twigs from bushes and trees.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Browsing can also mean wandering slowly along a place, looking around as you go.↗ Example: I am just browsing, thank you.↗ · We spent an hour browsing in the bookshop.↗ · Browsing the internet can be fun but stay safe.↗ · Your browsing history shows which sites you visited.↗ · The giraffe was browsing on the treetops.↗ · Dad was browsing the menu for vegetarian food.↗ · Private browsing does not make you invisible online.↗ · The sea cows had separated and were browsing lazily along the edges of the finest beaches that Kotick had ever seen.↗

bruin — Everyday, meaning 1: A bear.↗ In old stories «Bruin» is a name for a bear, as in fairy tales (old use).↗ Example: The door was thrust open: it was Bruin, the great, shaggy Bruin!↗ · Bruin the bear padded into the cottage.↗ · In the old tale the hunters fear Bruin.↗

bruise — Everyday, meaning 1: A purple, blue or dark mark on the skin caused by a bump or knock that breaks tiny blood vessels underneath without breaking the skin.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A soft, brown, damaged spot on fruit, like a bruise on an apple.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a verb, to get or give a bruise.↗ e.g. I bruised my arm.↗ Example: I got a big bruise on my leg when I fell off my bike.↗ · The bruise turned green and yellow as it healed.↗ · Put a cold pack on the bruise.↗ · Don't drop the bananas or they'll bruise.↗ · My shin is bruised from football.↗ · This apple has a brown bruise on one side.↗ · Bruises usually fade in a week or two.↗ · Her feelings were bruised when nobody picked her.↗ · “The doctor has ordered it because I have bruised my foot.”↗ · That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or torn, or cut, ye shall not offer unto the LORD; neither shall ye do thus in your land.↗ (Torah LEV.22.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel.'↗ (Torah GEN.3.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech; for I have slain a man for wounding me, and a young man for bruising me; (Torah GEN.4.23, JPS 1917)↗ · and they committed harlotries in Egypt; they committed harlotries in their youth; there were their bosoms pressed, and there their virgin breasts were bruised.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus thou didst call to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, when they from Egypt bruised thy breasts for the bosom of thy youth.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.21, JPS 1917)↗ · A bruised reed shall he not break, and the dimly burning wick shall he not quench; he shall make the right to go forth according to the truth.↗ (Prophets ISA.42.3, JPS 1917)↗

brummie — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK) A person from Birmingham, the big city in the middle of England.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, UK) The accent and way of speaking of people from Birmingham.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, UK) From or to do with Birmingham.↗ Example: My nan is a proud Brummie.↗ (UK)↗ · He speaks with a strong Brummie accent.↗ · The Brummie comedian made everyone laugh.↗ · «Ta-ra-a-bit, bab» is a Brummie way to say goodbye.↗ · Peaky Blinders is set among Brummies a hundred years ago.↗ · No accent is better than another, Brummie included.↗ · She moved to London but kept her Brummie voice.↗

brunch — Everyday, meaning 1: A meal eaten in the late morning instead of breakfast and lunch, often bigger than breakfast.↗ Example: We had brunch at the café on Sunday.↗ · Brunch is breakfast and lunch rolled into one.↗ · For brunch we had pancakes and eggs.↗ · "Brunch" is made by joining "breakfast" and "lunch".↗ · Mum loves a lazy Sunday brunch.↗ · We brunched at eleven and then went to the beach.↗

brunt — Everyday, meaning 1: The worst part or the main force of something bad, such as an attack, a storm or blame.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To bear (or take) the brunt of something means to suffer the most from it.↗ Example: The small village bore the brunt of the storm.↗ · The front of the car took the brunt of the crash.↗ · Mum took the brunt of the work when Dad was ill.↗ · The goalkeeper bore the brunt of the blame for the loss.↗ · Our tent faced the brunt of the wind.↗ · The soldiers at the front took the full brunt of the attack.↗ · Toad's friends bore the brunt of his silly adventures.↗ · The east side of the house takes the brunt of the weather.↗

brush — Everyday, meaning 1: A tool with many bristles on a handle, used for cleaning, painting or tidying hair: toothbrush, paintbrush, hairbrush.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Verb: to clean or tidy with a brush: brush your teeth, brush your hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Verb: to touch lightly while passing: «Her hand brushed mine».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Noun: low bushes and small trees (brush, scrub).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Brush up on: to practise something again.↗ Example: Brush your teeth twice a day.↗ · Brush your hair before school.↗ · Get a clean paintbrush for the blue paint.↗ · Change your toothbrush every three months.↗ · A leaf brushed my face.↗ · I need to brush up on my times tables.↗ · The cat loves being brushed.↗ · Firefighters put out the brush fire.↗ · ‘Brush me, girl!’ said the head.↗ · As when fire kindleth the brush-wood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make Thy name known to Thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at Thy presence, (Prophets ISA.64.1, JPS 1917)↗

brushing — Everyday, meaning 1: Brushing means cleaning or tidying something with a brush: brushing your teeth, brushing your hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Brushing means touching something lightly as you pass: the leaves were brushing my face.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Brushing can mean putting paint, oil or egg on something with a brush.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a noun, brushing is the act of cleaning with a brush.↗ Example: I'm brushing my teeth before bed.↗ · Brushing twice a day keeps your teeth healthy.↗ · Brushing your teeth should take about two minutes.↗ · She is brushing the dog's fur.↗ · The cat was brushing against my legs.↗ · Dad was brushing egg on the pastry.↗ · I'm brushing up on my times tables before the test.↗ · Don't forget brushing your tongue too.↗ · After some time, however, a gentleman who came to his master’s house gave Whittington a penny for brushing his shoes.↗

brushwood — Everyday, meaning 1: Small broken branches and twigs lying on the ground or cut from trees.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Thick, low undergrowth of small bushes and shrubs.↗ Example: We gathered brushwood to light the campfire.↗ · The path was blocked with brushwood.↗ · A rabbit hid under the brushwood.↗ · Dry brushwood burns very fast, so be careful.↗ · The farmer cleared the brushwood from the edge of the field.↗ · The Mole pushed through the brushwood, frightened by the faces.↗ · And the man replied, ‘Why, I’ve merely been gathering a handful of brushwood.’↗

brushwork — Everyday, meaning 1: The way a painter uses a paintbrush, and the marks the brush leaves on a painting.↗ Example: Van Gogh's brushwork is thick and swirly.↗ · Our teacher praised my careful brushwork.↗ · You can see the brushwork up close on the canvas.↗ · Monet used quick, loose brushwork to paint water.↗ · Chinese brushwork uses ink and a soft brush.↗ · The brushwork made the sky look windy.↗

brutal — Everyday, meaning 1: Brutal means very cruel and violent.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Brutal means very harsh, severe or unpleasant, as with weather or a test.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Brutal honesty or truth is said directly, even if it hurts.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang) Brutal can mean really bad or tough: «That maths test was brutal.».↗ Example: The brutal king punished anyone who disagreed.↗ · The soldiers carried out a brutal attack on the village.↗ · The winter in Canada was brutal, with temperatures of minus thirty.↗ · (informal) That cross-country run was brutal!↗ · With brutal honesty, my friend said my drawing looked like a potato.↗ · The wolf's brutal teeth tore the meat.↗ · It was a brutally hot day.↗ · Hook itched to do it, but it seemed too brutal.↗