BRUNONIAN
Bru*no"ni*an, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; — a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.
BRUNSWICK BLACK
Bruns"wick black`.
Defn: See Japan black.
BRUNSWICK GREEN
Bruns"wick green`. Etym: [G. Braunschweiger grün, first made at
Brunswick, in Germany.]
Defn: An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
BRUNT Brunt, n. Etym: [OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t.]
1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.
BRUSH
Brush, n. Etym: [OE. brusche, OF. broche, broce, brosse, brushwood,
F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta, brust,
bristle, G. borste bristle, bürste brush. See Bristle, n., and cf.
Browse.]