gadier, _m._ corporal, police sergeant.
brigand, _m._ brigand, ruffian.
briller, _v._ to shine; brillant, -e, adj. and m. brilliant,
shining, brilliancy, luster.
brin, _m._ blade, sprig, grain, bit; espere un --, wait a bit.
brindille, _f._ twig, sprig, bit.
brique, _f._ brick.
brisant, _m._ reef, breaker, surf.
brise, _f._ breeze.
brise-lames, _m._ breakwater.
briser, _v._ to break, break down, shatter; se --, be broken,
be dashed to pieces.
britannique, _adj._ British.
brocanteur, _m._ second-band dealer, dealer in curiosities.
brocart, _m._ brocade.
brocher, _v._ to figure, brocade, sew (books).
brodequin, _m._ high laced shoe.
broder, _v._ to embroider, embellish with designs in relief.
bronze, _m._ bronze.
brosse, _f._ brush.
brosser, _v._ to brush.
brosserie, _f._ brush-trade or manufactory, brushes.
brouette, _f._ wheelbarrow; huiler la roue de sa --, to help
oneself to other people's property, "gldquo;graft" (the idea being that the
wheel was oiled so well that the garden could be plundered without
noise).
brouillard, _m._ fog, mist.
Brouin, family name, perhaps Balzac derived it from the dialectic
form brouine.
brouine, dialectic for bruine.
broussailles, _f. pl._ brambles, briars, thorny undergrowth,
underbrush (rare in singular).
broyer, _v._ to crush, grind.
bru, _f._ daughter-in-law.
bruine, _f._ drizzling rain, drizzle.
bruire, _v._ to make a confused noise, rustle.
bruit, _m._ noise, report.
bruler, _v._ to burn; brule, m. burning.
brulot, _m._ fire ship, firebrand, burning brandy with sugar.
brulure, _f._ burning, burn, scalding.
brume, _f._ mist.
brumeux, -euse, _adj._ misty, foggy.
brun, -e, _adj._ brown, dark.
brusque, _adj._ blunt, abrupt, brusk.
brusquement, _adv._ bruskly, rudely, quickly.
brut, -e, _adj._ raw, rough, crude.
brutalite, _f._ brutality.
brute, _f._ brute.
bruyant -e, _adj._ noisy.
buche, _f._ log, stick of wood.
bucheron -ne, _m., f._ wood-cutter.
buffet, _m._ sideboard, refreshment-room.
Bulbul, a kind of thrush in the Orient, sometimes called the
nightingale of the East (Arabic).
bulletin, _m._ bulletin.
bureau, _m._ desk, office; -- de tabac, tobacco shop.
burgau, _m._ mother-of-pearl (shell).
burlesque, _adj._ burlesque, ludicrous.
buste, _m._ bust.
but, _m._ goal, target, aim; dans un --, for an object.
buveur, _m._ drinker.

C

c' (c'), _see_ ce.
ca, _see_ cela.
ca, _adv. and interj._ here, now!, come now!; -- et la, here
and there.
caban, _m._ ov