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{ } n. A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Dull-witted; stupid. “The addle-brained Oberstein.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dull and addle-pated. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (a) A stretched wire or rope elevated above the ground and forming a way along which a trolley may travel, for conveying a load suspended from the trolley. (b) An elevated cableway. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

p. a. [ OE. afrayed, affraide, p. p. of afraien to affray. See Affray, and cf. Afeard. ] Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. [ Afraid comes after the noun it limits. ] “Back they recoiled, afraid.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word expresses a less degree of fear than terrified or frightened. It is followed by of before the object of fear, or by the infinitive, or by a dependent clause; as, to be afraid of death. “I am afraid to die.” “I am afraid he will chastise me.” “Be not afraid that I your hand should take.” Shak. I am afraid is sometimes used colloquially to soften a statement; as, I am afraid I can not help you in this matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fearful; timid; timorous; alarmed; anxious. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Of or pertaining to algebra; using algebra; according to the laws of algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings; algebraic geometry. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. progressing by constant multiplicatory factors; -- of a series of numbers. Contrasted to arithmetical. algebraic progression
Syn. -- algebraic [ PJC ]

Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed to a transcendental curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By algebraic process. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in algebra. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Apparel, n. & v. ] Preparation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being appraised. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Appraise. Cf. Apprizal. ] A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appraised p. pr. & vb. n. Appraising. ] [ Pref. ad- + praise. See Praise, Price, Apprize, Appreciate. ] 1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To estimate; to conjecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To praise; to commend. [ Obs. ] R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appraised the Lycian custom. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States, this word is often pronounced, and sometimes written, apprize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Appraise. Cf. Apprizement. ] The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Appraise, Apprizer. ] One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To raise. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + traitor. ] A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arraigned p. pr. & vb. n. Arraigning. ] [ OE. arainen, arenen, OF. aragnier, aranier, araisnier, F. arraisonner, fr. LL. arrationare to address to call before court; L. ad + ratio reason, reasoning, LL. cause, judgment. See Reason. ] 1. (Law) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. [ 1913 Webster ]

They will not arraign you for want of knowledge. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce. See Accuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns. Blackstone. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From OF. aramier, fr. LL. adhramire. ] (Old Eng. Law) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who arraigns. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. arraynement, aresnement. ] 1. (Law) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A calling to an account to faults; accusation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Array, v. t. ] Clothes; raiment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Phys. Geog.) A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. an island in the Persian Gulf.
Syn. -- Bahrein. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an island country in the Persian Gulf.
Syn. -- Bahrein. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a native or inhabitant of Bahrain.
Syn. -- Bahreini. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Bahrain (definition 2). The Bahraini ruling families [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bahrain. Bahraini beaches. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Mil.) A train of artillery for siege operations. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Berained p. pr. & vb. n. Beraining. ] To rain upon; to wet with rain. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought.
Syn. -- addle-head, loon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Braided; p. pr. & vb. n. Braiding. ] [ OE. braiden, breiden, to pull, reach, braid, AS. bregdan to move to and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. bregða, D. breiden to knit, OS. bregdan to weave, OHG. brettan to brandish. Cf. Broid. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. [ 1913 Webster ]

Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To reproach. [ Obs. ] See Upbraid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands. [ 1913 Webster ]

A braid of hair composed of two different colors twined together. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf.Icel. breg&unr_;a to move quickly. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A quick motion; a start. [ Obs. ] Sackville. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fancy; freak; caprice. [ Obs. ] R. Hyrde. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To start; to awake. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. bræd, bred, deceit; akin to Icel. bragð trick, AS. bredan, bregdan, to braid, knit, (hence) to knit a net, to draw into a net, i. e., to deceive. See Braid, v. t. ] Deceitful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Since Frenchmen are so braid,
Marry that will, I live and die a maid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. adorned with braid; as, his braided collar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. formed into a braid or braids; as, braided hair. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act of making or using braids. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Braids, collectively; trimming. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brayle furling rope, OF. braiol a band placed around the breeches, fr.F. braies, pl., breeches, fr. L. braca, bracae, breeches, a Gallic word; cf. Arm. bragez. Cf. Breeches. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Naut.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters and numerals are represented by patterns of raised tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. 1. to transcribe in Braille. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. brain, brein, AS. bragen, brægen; akin to LG. brägen, bregen, D. brein, and perh. to Gr. bre`gma, brechmo`s, the upper part of head, if β = φ. √95. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the brain of man the cerebral lobes, or largest part of the forebrain, are enormously developed so as to overhang the cerebellum, the great lobe of the hindbrain, and completely cover the lobes of the midbrain. The surface of the cerebrum is divided into irregular ridges, or convolutions, separated by grooves (the so-called fissures and sulci), and the two hemispheres are connected at the bottom of the longitudinal fissure by a great transverse band of nervous matter, the corpus callosum, while the two halves of the cerebellum are connected on the under side of the brain by the bridge, or pons Varolii. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding; as, use your brains. “ My brain is too dull.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense, often used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The affections; fancy; imagination. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a very intelligent person. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

6. the controlling electronic mechanism for a robot, guided missile, computer, or other device exhibiting some degree of self-regulation. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

To have on the brain, to have constantly in one's thoughts, as a sort of monomania. [ Low ] --
no-brainer a decision requiring little or no thought; an obvious choice. [ slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Brain box or
Brain case, the bony or cartilaginous case inclosing the brain. --
Brain coral,
Brain stone coral (Zool.), a massive reef-building coral having the surface covered by ridges separated by furrows so as to resemble somewhat the surface of the brain, esp. such corals of the genera Mæandrina and Diploria. --
Brain fag (Med.), brain weariness. See Cerebropathy. --
Brain fever (Med.), fever in which the brain is specially affected; any acute cerebral affection attended by fever. --
Brain sand, calcareous matter found in the pineal gland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brained p. pr. & vb. n. Braining. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

There thou mayst brain him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was the swift celerity of the death . . .
That brained my purpose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To conceive; to understand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
Tongue, and brain not. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the part of the skull that encloses the brain.
Syn. -- cranium, brainpan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a product of one's creative thinking and work; as, the project was the brainchild of the director.
Syn. -- inspiration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. a. Supplied with brains. [ 1913 Webster ]

If th' other two be brained like us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hot-headed; furious. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]