"""bridesman " :: Bridesman (n.) A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the best man..

"""broad Gauge " :: Broad gauge () A wider distance between the rails than the standard gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge..

"""bronze " :: Bronze (a.) Boldness; impudence; brass..

''twixt-brain :: 'Twixt-brain (n.) The thalamen/cephalon.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (n.) An abridgment.

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (imp. & p. p.) of Abbreviat.

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Abbreviating :: Abbreviating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abbreviat.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Abbreviatory :: Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.

Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.

Abracadabra :: Abracadabra (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

Abradant :: Abradant (n.) A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc..

Abrade :: Abrade (v. t.) To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks..

Abrade :: Abrade (v. t.) Same as Abraid.

Abraded :: Abraded (imp. & p. p.) of Abrad.

Abrading :: Abrading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abrad.

Abraham-man :: Abraham-man (n.) Alt. of Abram-ma.

Abrahamic :: Abrahamic (a.) Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant..

Abrahamitic :: Abrahamitic (a.) Alt. of ica.

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