trails, inwards; caecum, colon, rectum;
recesses, _penetralia_.
bower, n. arbor.
bowl, n. dish, beaker, mortar.
bow-legged, a. bandy-legged.
bowman, n. archer.
bow-shaped, a. arcuate, arcuated.
box, n. receptacle, chest, case, coffer, carton, caddy, bandbox,
casket, caisson; ciborium, pyx; binnacle; slap, cuff, buffet, stroke.
box, v. slap, cuff; spar.
boxing, n. sparring.
boy, n. lad, youngster, stripling, master, youth, son, minor, junior,
youngling, cadet, chap, urchin, bub, sprig, callant, younker, hobbledehoy;
gamin, gutter-snipe.
boyhood, n. youth, juvenility, juniority, nonage, minority.
boyish, a. juvenile, immature, childish, youthful.
boy-servant, n. page, footboy; groom, hostler, lackey.
brace, v. prop, support, fortify, buttress, stay, shore; strengthen,
invigorate.
brace, n. prop, support, shore, strut, stay, stanchion; tension;
pair, two.
bracer, n. tonic, invigorant; stiffener, support, prop.
bracing, a. invigorating, strengthening, stimulating.
bracket, n. console, corbel, strut, modillion, cantalever; pl.
crotchets.
brag, v. boast, vaunt, vapor. Antonyms: disparage, decry, belittle,
depreciate.
brag, n. boasting, self-glorification, vaunt, gasconade braggadocio,
bravado, vaporing. Antonyms: disparagement, detraction, decrial,
depreciation.
braggadocio, n. brag, boasting; boaster, braggart.
braggart, n. boaster, rodomont, gascon, vaunter, vaporer, blusterer,
braggadocio, bouncer.
braid, n. plait; queue, pigtail.--v. plait, plat, entwine,
interlace.
brain, n. cerebrum; cerebellum; encephalon. Associated Words:
cerebrology, encephalology, cerebrate, cerebric, lecithin, excerebration,
cephalopathy, encephalitis, apoplexy, cerebral.
brain action. cerebration.
brain fag. cerebropathy.
brainless, a. anencephalic, anencephalous; witless, silly, imbecile,
idiotic.
brake, n. thicket.
branch, n. bough, limb; shoot, sprout, sprig, spray, twig, tiller,
switch, sucker, stolen, offshoot; ramification; division, department,
bureau, wing; tributary, affluent.
branch, v. ramify, divaricate, diverge, fork, bifurcate.
branch, a. tributary.
branching, a. forked, dendroid, dendritic, arborescent, furcated.
branching, n. ramification, divarication, divergence, forking,
bifurcation, radiation, dichotomy.
brand, v. stigmatize.
brand, n. firebrand; kind, quality, grade, stigma.
branding, n. stigmatization.
brash, a. quick-tempered, irascible
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