Brows"er (brouz"r), n. An animal that browses.
Browse"wood` (&?;), n. Shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse.
Brows"ing, n. Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.
Browsings for the deer.
Howell.
Brow"spot` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the interocular gland.
||Bru*ang" (&?;), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) The Malayan sun bear.
Bru"cine (&?;), n. [Cf. F. brucine, fr. James Bruce, a Scottish traveler.] (Chem.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.
Bru"cite (&?;), n. [Named after Dr. A. Bruce of New York.] (Min.) (a) A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate. (b) The mineral chondrodite. [R.]
Bruck"eled (&?;), a. Wet and dirty; begrimed. [Obs. or Dial.] Herrick.
||Bruh (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) [Native name.] The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.
Bru"in (&?;), n. [D. bruin brown. In the epic poem of "Reynard the Fox" the bear is so called from his color. See Brown, a.] A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
Bruise (brz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bruised (brzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bruising.] [OE. brusen, brisen, brosen, bresen, AS. brsan or fr. OF. bruiser, bruisier, bruser, to break, shiver, perh. from OHG. brochisn. Cf. Break, v. t.] 1. To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.