bring 
It enabled him to gain the most vain and impracticable 
into his designs, and to bring about several great events 
for the advantage of the public. Addixon, Freeholder. 
Yes, yes, 'faith, they're agreed he's caught, he's en- 
tangled my dear Carlos, we have brought it about. 
Sheridan, The Duenna, li. 4. 
To bring a chain cable to, to put it round the capstan 
ready for heaving up the anchor. To bring a nest Of 
hornets about one's ears. See hornet. To bring a 
person to Ills bearings. See bearing. To bring a ship 
to anchor, to let go the anchor. To bring by the lee 
(iiaitt.), to have the wind come suddenly on the lee side, 
owing to the yawing of the vessel, a sudden change in the 
wind's direction, or the bad steering of the helmsman. 
To bring down, (a) To take down ; cause to come down ; 
lower, (I) To humiliate ; abase. Shak. (c) To cause to 
fall; hence, of game, to kill. [Colloq.] 
By my valour ! there is no merit in killing him so near : 
do, my dear Sir Lucius, let me briny him down at a long 
shot. Sheridan, The Rivals, v. 3. 
To bring down the house, to elicit a burst of applause 
or laughter from those present, as In acting or public 
speaking. To bring far ben. See 6eni. To bring 
forth, (a) To produce, as young or fruit ; hence, give rise 
to ; be the cause of. 
Idleness and luxury brinq forth poverty and want. 
TUlotion. 
(b) To bring to light; disclose; reveal. 
The heavens have thought well on thee, . 
To bring forth this discovery. 
Shak., All's Well, v. 3. 
To bring forward, (a) To produce to view ; cause to ad- 
vance. (6) To adduce: as, to bring forward arguments in 
support of a scheme. To bring grist to the mill. See 
gnat. To bring home to. (a) To prove conclusively 
to belong or be applicable to or be true of, as a charge 
of any kind. (M To impress upon the feeling; cause to 
be felt : as, he brought it home to them very vividly ; in 
preaching, strive to bring the truth home to the hearers. 
Several prisoners to whom Jeffreys was unable to bring 
home the charge of high treason were convicted of misde- 
meanours. Macaulay, Hist. Eng. 
To bring In. (a) To bring from another place, or from 
withoutlo within a certain precinct. 
Look you brintj me in the names of some six or seven. 
Shak., M. for M., ii. 1. 
(b) To supply ; furnish ; yield : especially used in speak- 
ing of a revenue, rent, or income produced from a certain 
source. 
The sole measure of all his courtesies is, what return 
they will make him, and what revenue they will bring him 
in. South. 
(c) To introduce ; especially, to introduce to the notice of 
a legislature : as, to bring in a bill. 
Cain was not therefore the first murderer, but Adam, 
who brought in death. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 4. 
Since he could not have a seat among them himself, he 
would bring in one who had more merit. Taller. 
(d) To place in a particular condition or station. 
But he protests he loves you ; 
And needs no other suitor but his likings . . . 
To bring you in again [namely, to your former office |. 
Shak., Othello, iii. 1. 
(et) To reduce within the limits of law and government. 
Perforce bring in all that rebellious rout. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
To bring off. (a) To bear or convey from a place ; rescue : 
as, to bring off men from a wreck. 
A brave young fellow, of a matchless spirit ! 
He brought me off like thunder, charg'd and boarded, 
As if he had been shot to save mine honour. 
Beau, and Ft., Knight of Malta, ii. 1. 
(b) To procure to be acquitted ; clear from condemnation ; 
cause to escape, (c) To dissuade ; change, as from an opin- 
ion or purpose ; cause to abandon. 
'Tis a foolish thing for me to be brought of from an 
Opinion in a thing neither of us know. 
Selden, Table-Talk, p. 79. 
To bring on. (a) To bear or convey or cause to be con- 
veyed with one from a distance : as, to bring on a quantity 
of goods, (d) To cause to begin : as, to bring on a battle. 
All commanders were cautioned against bringing on an 
engagement. U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 373. 
(c) To originate or cause to exist : as, to bring on a disease. 
(d) To induce ; lead on. 
With a crafty madness, keeps aloof, 
When we would bring him on to some confession. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 
To bring one's nose to the grindstone. See grind- 
stone. To bring ont. (a) To expose; detect; bring to 
light from concealment ; as, to bring out one's baseness. 
(6) To find by calculation or argument ; deduce ; infer. 
The more strictly Mr. Gladstone reasons on his premises, 
the more absurd are the conclusions which he brings out. 
Macaulay, Gladstone on Church and State, 
(c) Topublish : as, to bring out a new edition of a book. 
Tq bring over, (a) To carry over ; bear across ; as, to 
bring over despatches ; to bring over passengers in a boat. 
(6) To convert by persuasion or other means ; draw to a 
new party ; cause to change sides or an opinion. 
What did I not undergo of danger in this negotiation to 
have brought him over to his Majesty's interest, when it 
was intirely in his hands ! Evelyn, Diary, May 24, 1680. 
The Protestant clergy will find it perhaps no difficult 
matter to bring great numbers over to the church. Swift. 
To bring round, (a) To persuade: as, I will under 
take to bring him round to your views, (b) To lead up to 
in an indirect manner : as, he brought round the conver- 
sation to his favorite topic, (c) To recover, as from a 
swoon. To bring to. (a) To bring back to conscious- 
ness, as a person partly drowned. (&) Naut. : (1) To heave 
to ; force (another ship) to heave to or stop. (2) To bend 
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(a sail) to its yard or gaff.- To bring to bag, in hunting, 
to kill. To bring to bear, or to bear upon, (a) TO 
cause to have influence or effect, or to operate upon. 
Every author has a way of his own in bringing his points 
to bear. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, i. 9. 
All powerful action is performed by bringing the forces 
of nature to bear upon our objects. Emerson, Art. 
No force of imagination that I can bring to bear will 
avail to cast out the youth of that very imagination which 
endeavours to depict its latter days. 
W. K. Cli/ord, Lectures, I. 230. 
(b) To bring into range, or the range of : as, to bring a gun 
to bear upon a target. To bring to book. See book. To 
bring to gaff. See naff. To Dring to light, to bring 
into view ; reveal. To bring to mind, to recall, as what 
has been forgotten or what is not present to the mind. 
To bring to pass, to cause to come to pass ; effect. 
The thing is established by God, and God will shortly 
bring it to pass. Gen. xli. 32. 
To bring to the gangway. See gangway. To bring 
to the hammer. See hammer. To bring under, to 
subdue ; repress ; restrain ; reduce to obedience. 
The Minstrel fell ! but the foeman's chain 
Could not bring his proud soul under. 
Moore, Minstrel Boy. 
To bring up. (a) To bear, convey, or lift upward, (b) 
In printing, to give the proper light and shade to, as a 
print of an engraving, by means of a suitable distribu- 
tion of pressure in the press, produced by overlays ; also, 
to equalize the pressure upon, as any part of a form on a 
press, by underlaying it with cardboard or paper, (c) In 
lithog., to make apparent ; make visible, as a drawing or a 
greasy spot upon the stone, (d) To rear ; nurture ; care 
for during adolescence : used with reference to the needs 
of both the body and the mind. 
God by this tribulation calleth him, and biddeth him 
come home out of the countrey of siune, that he was bred 
and brought vp so long in. 
Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 41. 
I consider it the best part of an education to have been 
born and brought up in the country. Alcott, Tablets, p. 48. 
The noble wish 
To save all earnings to the uttermost, 
And give his child a better bringing-up 
Than his had been. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
() To introduce to notice or consideration : as, to bring 
up a subject in 'conversation. (/) To cause to advance 
near : as, to bring up forces, or the reserves. 
The troops from Corinth were brought up in time to re- 
pel the threatened movement without a battle. 
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 415. 
(g) Naut., to stop (a ship's headway) by letting go an 
anchor or by miming her ashore, (h) To pull up (a horse) ; 
cause to stop : often with short : as, he brought up his 
horse short (that is, caused it to stop suddenly) ; hence, 
figuratively, to stop suddenly in any career or course of 
action ; bring before a magistrate ; pull up. 
You were well aware that you were committing felony, 
and have probably felt tolerably sure at times that you 
would some day be brought up short. Trollops. 
To bring up the rear, to move onward in the rear ; 
form the rear portion. To bring up with a round 
turn (naut.), to stop (the running of a rope) by taking a 
round turn on a belaying-piu or cavil ; hence, figurative- 
ly, to stop the doing of anything suddenly but effectually. 
= Syn. Bring up, Rear, etc. See raixe. 
bringer (bring'er), n. One who brings, in any 
sense of the verb. 
brinish (bri'nish), a. [< brine 1 + -toftl.] Like 
brine: briny; salt or saltish: as, "her brinish 
tears/' Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 
brinishness (bri'nish-nes), n. The quality of 
being brinish or saltish. 
brinjal (brin'jal), n. [Also improp. bringall 
= Pg. beringela, < Tamil brinjaul, the egg- 
plant.] The East Indian name of the fruit of 
the egg-plant, Solanum Melongena. 
brinjarree (brin-jar'i), n. [Anglo-Ind., also 
written brinjaree, < Hind, birinjari, a camp-fol- 
lowing dealer in rice, < birinj, Pers. birinj, rice ; 
mixed with Anglo-Ind. benjary, bunjary, bunja- 
ree, < Hind, banjdri, banjdra (as in the del). < 
Skt. vanij, merchant: see banian 1 , banyan^.] 
In India, a dealer in grain, salt, etc., who car- 
ries his goods about from market to market, 
especially in the Deccan. 
brink (brmgk), . [< ME. brink, brenk, edge, of 
LG. or Seand. origin : MLG. LG. brink, brink, 
margin, edge, edge of a hill, a hill, = G. dial. 
connected with Icel. bringa, a grassy slope, 
orig. the breast, = Sw. bringa, breast, = 
Dan. bringe, chest. Cf. W. bryncyn, a hillock, < 
bryn, a hill; of. bron, the breast, breast of a 
hill.] The edge, margin, or border of a steep 
place, as of a precipice or the bank of a river; 
verge; hence, close proximity: as, "the preci- 
pice's brink," Dry den; to be on the brink of 
ruin. 
We understood they were a people almost upon the 
very brink of renouncing any dependence on y Crowne. 
Evelyn, Diary, June 6, 1671. 
On the farthest brink of doubtful ocean. 
Lowell, Appledore. 
= Syn. See rim. 
brisk 
briny (bri'ni), a. [< brine 1 + -y 1 .] Pertaining 
to brine; of the nature of or affected by brine ; 
salt ; salty : as, a briny taste ; the briny flood ; 
briny tears. 
Late, with the rising moon, returned the wains from the 
marshes, 
laden with briny hay, that filled the air with its odor. 
Longfellow, Evangeline, i. 2. 
brioche (bre-osh'), [F., a cake, fig. a blun- 
der; origin unknown.] 1. A sort of pastry made 
with flour, eggs, and butter. 2. A round and 
stuffed cushion for the feet to rest on. 3. A 
stitch in knitting, originally used in making 
this kind of footstool. 
briolet (bri'o-let), n. See briolette. 
briolette (brl-o-lef), n. [< F. briolette, also writ- 
ten briollette for brillolette (whence E. also bril- 
liolette), < brillant, brilliant: see brilliant.'] A 
form in which the diamond is sometimes cut ; 
that form which would result from joining two 
rose diamonds back to back and adding several 
rows of triangular facets. (See rose and dia- 
mond.) Also brilliolette, briolet. 
brionin, brionine, n. See bryonin. 
briony, . See bryony. 
briquet, An obsolete form of brick 2 . 
briquet (bri-kef; F. pron. bre-ka'), n. [F., a 
steel, tinder-box, dim. of brique, brick: see 
brick 2 .'] 1. A steel prepared for striking a 
light with a flint. In heraldry, as a bearing, 
it is* almost peculiar to the collar of the Golden 
Fleece. See order. 2. A small brick. 3. 
Coal-dust molded for fuel into the shape of 
bricks or balls. [In the last two senses also 
briquette.] 
brise 1 !, n. An obsolete spelling of breeze^. 
brise 2 t, An obsolete spelling of breeze 1 *. 
brise 3 (briz), n. [Also written briee ; < F. brise, 
a piece of ground newly broken up for tillage 
after lying long untilled, < briser, break; cf. 
bruise. Cf. equiv. E. dial, breck.'] Ground that 
has lain long untilled. Kersey, 1708 ; Halliwell. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
brise (bre-za'), a. [F., pp. of briser, break : 
see bruise.'] In her. : (a) Broken: said of any 
bearing when depicted as torn asunder. (6) 
Bearing a mark of cadency or brisure : said of 
a shield which is differenced in this way. Also 
spelled brizd. 
brisement (brez'ment; F. pron. brez'mon), n. 
[F., < briser, break": see bruise.] In surg., a 
breaking or tearing asunder Brisement forc6, 
the forcible breaking down of ankylosis. 
Brisinga (bri-sing'ga), n. [NL. (P. C. As- 
bjornsen), named in allusion to Icel. Brisin- 
ga men (AS. 
Brosinga (for 
*Breosinga) 
mene), the 
necklace of 
the Brisings, 
which figures 
in Scand. my- 
thology: Bri- 
singa, gen. of 
Brisingr, Bri- 
sing; men (= 
AS. mene), a 
necklace.] A 
genus of star- 
fishes, typical 
of the family 
Brisingida!. 
Brisingida (bri-sin'ji-da), n. pi. [NL., < Bri- 
singa + -ida.] A group of Asteroida, or star- 
fishes, typified by the genus Brisinga. 
Brisingidae (bri-sin'ji-de), n. pi. [NL., < Bri- 
singa + -ido!.] A remarkable family of star- 
fishes, of the order Asteroidea, having the body 
shaped as in the ophiurians or sand-stars, with 
long rounded rays distinct from the disk, and the 
ambulacral grooves not continued to the mouth. 
B. coronata is a beautiful Norwegian species. 
brisk (brisk), a. [Appar. < W. brysg = Gael. 
briosg, also brisg = Ir. *brisg, quick, nimble, 
lively; cf. W. brys, haste, brysio, hasten, Gael. 
Ir. briosg, a start ; bounce, Ir. 6ra, lively, brisk, 
Gael. Lr. bras, lively, hasty, etc. Cf. brash*. 
Not connected with frisk and fresh; but some 
refer to F. brusque.'] 1. Quick or rapid in ac- 
tion or motion; exhibiting quickness; lively; 
swift; nimble: as, a brisk breeze. 
We split the journey, and perform 
In two days' time what's often done 
By brixki-r travellers in one. 
Cowper, tr. of Horace's Satires, i. 6. 
Hence 2. Sprightly; animated; vivacious; 
gay: as, "a brisk, gamesome lass," Sir B. 
Deep-sea Starfish (Bri'si'nfa coronata 
