bruiser, n. (Colloq.) boxer, pugilist.

bruit, n. [report], town [talk], [rumor], [hearsay].--v. [noise], abroad, [report], [tell], [circulate].

brush, n. [brushwood]; [thicket], [underbrush]; grazing.

brushwood, n. [thicket], [coppice], [underbrush], [brush].

brutal, a. [inhuman], [cruel], fell, [ruthless], truculent, [unfeeling]; [beastly], bestial, [brutish].

brutality, n. [inhumanity], cruelty, truculence.

brute, n. [beast]; [fiend], [monster], [ruffian], yahoo.

brute, a. irrational.

brutish, a. bestial, [brutal], [brute].

bubonic plague. polyadenitis.