Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BRACK'ISH-NESS, n.

The quality of being brackish; saltness in a small degree. – Cheyne.

BRACK'Y, a.

Brackish. [Not used.]

BRACT, or BRAC'TE-A, n. [L. Ainsworth writes, bractea, or brattea.]

In botany, an abnormally developed leaf, growing upon the peduncle of a flower. It differs from other leaves in shape or color, and is generally situated on the peduncle, so near the flower, as easily to be mistaken for a perianth.

BRAC'TE-ATE, a. [from bractea.]

Furnished with bracts. – Barton.

BRACT'ED, a.

Furnished with bracts. – Martyn.

BRAC'TE-O-LATE, a.

Furnished with bracteoles.

BRAC'TE-OLE, n.

A little bract. – De Candolle.

BRAD, a.

in Sax. is broad, and occurs in names; as in Bradford, broadford.

BRAD, n. [Arm. broud, a point; Ir. brod, or braid; Dan. braad, a goad or sting; Ch. ברט barat, a dart, a borer.]

A particular kind of nail used in floors and other work, where it is deemed proper to drive nails entirely into the wood. For this purpose, it is made without a broad head or shoulder over the shank. – Moxon.

BRAD'Y-PUS, n.

The Sloth, which see.

BRAG, n.

A game at cards. – Chesterfield.

BRAG, n.

A boast or boasting; ostentatious verbal display of one's deeds, or advantages; the thing boasted. – Milton. Bacon. Spenser has used this word as an adverb for proudly.

BRAG, v.i. [W. bragiaw, to swell, to shoot up, to brag; brag, a sprouting, malt; bragu, to malt. It coincides with Dan. brager, to crackle, Gr. βραχω, Eng. to brag, and many other words signifying to break, or shoot forth. See Brave.]

To boast; to display one's actions, merits, or advantages ostentatiously; to tell boastful stories; followed by of; as, to brag of a good horse, or of a feat. – Sidney. Shak. To brag on, is vulgar; indeed the word itself is become low and is not to be used in elegant composition.

BRAG-GA-DO'CIO, n.

A puffing, boasting fellow. – Dryden.

BRAG'GARD-ISM, n.

Boastfulness; vain ostentation.

BRAG'GART, a.

Boastful; vainly ostentatious. – Donne.

BRAG'GART, n. [brag and art, ard, kind.]

A boaster; a vain fellow. – Shak.

BRAG'GER, n.

One who brags; a boaster.

BRAG'GET, n. [W. bragawd. See Brag.]

A liquor made by fermenting the wort of ale and mead. – Owen.

BRAG'GING, n.

Act of boasting.

BRAG'GING, ppr.

Boasting.

BRAG'GING-LY, adv.

Boastingly.

BRAG'LESS, a.

Without bragging or ostentation. [Unusual.] – Shak.

BRAG'LY, adv.

Finely; so as it may be bragged of. [Not used.] – Spenser.

BRAH-MAN'IC, a.

Pertaining to the brachmans or bramins of India. – Vallancey.