| brin | One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches. Origin: F. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| brindle | A hair coat colour in which there is a uniform mixture of gray or tawny hairs with others of white or black; a composite colour. Origin: diminutive of O.E. Brinded (05 Mar 2000) |
| brine | 1. Water saturated or strongly inpregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters. 2. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. "Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . He lay." (Cowper) 3. Tears; so called from their saltness. <medicine> "What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline!" (Shak) Brine fly, brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again. Origin: AS. Bryne a burning, salt liquor, brine, fr. Brinnan, brynnan, to burn. See Burn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Brinell | Johan A., Swedish metallurgist, 1849-1925. See: Brinell hardness number. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brinell hardness number | A number related to the size of the permanent impression made by a ball indenter of specified size (usually 10 mm in diameter) pressed into the surface of the material under a specified load: where P = applied load in kg, D = diameter of the ball in mm, and d = diameter of the impression in mm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bring | 1. To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch. "And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread." (1 Kings xvii. 11) "To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back." (Shak) 2. To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to. "There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . Than to do what right in justice you may." (Bacon) 3. To convey; to move; to carry or conduct. "In distillation, the water . . . Brings over with it some part of the oil of vitriol." (Sir I. Newton) 4. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide. "It seems so preposterous a thing . . . That they do not easily bring themselves to it." (Locke) "The nature of the things . . . Would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them." (Locke) 5. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton? To bring about, to bring to pass; to effect; to accomplish. To bring back. To recall. To restore, as something borrowed, to its owner. To bring by the lee, to bend it to the yard. To bring to pass, to accomplish to effect. "Trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass." . To bring under, to subdue; to restrain; to reduce to obedience. To bring up. To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate. To cause to stop suddenly. Origin: by dropping the reflexive pronoun] To stop suddenly; to come to a standstill. To bring up (any one) with a round turn, to cause (any one) to stop abruptly. To be brought to bed. See Bed. Synonym: To fetch, bear, carry, convey, transport, import, procure, produce, cause, adduce, induce. Origin: OE. Bringen, AS. Bringan; akin to OS. Brengian, D. Brengen, Fries. Brenga, OHG. Bringan, G. Bringen, Goth. Briggan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brinjaree | <zoology> A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound. Origin: Native name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brinolase | <enzyme> A fibrinolytic and thrombolytic enzyme from aspergillus oryzae. Pharmacological action: fibrinolytic agent. Registry number: EC 3.4.99.- (12 Dec 1998) |