Name Report For First Name BRANT:
BRANT
First name BRANT's origin is English. BRANT means "proud: variant of brand. mohawk indian joseph brant was a renowned strategist who fought for the british during the american revolution: and a devout scholar who translated christian religious works into his native indian tongue". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BRANT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of brant.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BRANT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with BRANT - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming BRANT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BRANT AS A WHOLE:
branton brantson brantleyNAMES RHYMING WITH BRANT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (rant) - Names That Ends with rant:
escorant lorant grant durant durrantRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ant) - Names That Ends with ant:
yervant gallehant rhongomyant agramant sacripant creissant anant bliant briant bryant calogrenant conant oliphant rhodant valiant clarissant meleagant pantRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nt) - Names That Ends with nt:
moraunt kent bent toussaint devent advent arnt brent clint derwent diamont dumont flint flynt fremont frimunt graent hunt lamont laurent osmont pierrepont toussnint trent vincent waldmunt pierpont avent jacint millicent crescent geraint innocent sargent trevrizent delmont quent quintNAMES RHYMING WITH BRANT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (bran) - Names That Begins with bran:
bran brand branda brandan branddun brande brandee brandeis brandeles brandelis brandelyn branden brandi brandice brandie brandilyn brandin brando brandon brandubh branduff brandy brandyce brandyn brangaine brangore brangorre branhard branigan brann brannan brannen brannon branor bransan branson branwen branwynRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (bra) - Names That Begins with bra:
bra brachah brad bradach bradaigh bradamate bradan bradana bradbourne bradburn bradd braddock braddon brademagus braden bradene bradey bradford bradig bradleah bradlee bradley bradly bradon bradshaw bradwell brady bradyn braeden braedon braedyn braelyn braemwiella braiana braiden brain brainard brainerd brale braleah bram bramley bramwell braoin brarn brasil braweigh brawleigh brawley braxton brayden braydon braylie braylon braytonRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (br) - Names That Begins with br:
bre brea breac breana breanainn breandan breannaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRANT:
First Names which starts with 'br' and ends with 'nt':
First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 't':
baldhart bancroft barnet barnett barret barrett bart bartlett bast bastet batt beat beaufort beircheart bemot benat benecroft bennet bennett beorht beornet berit bernot berowalt bert biast birgit birkett bogart bogohardt bohort bort brendt bret brett bridget bridgett briet brit burcet burdett burhardt burkett burkhart burnet burnett burtEnglish Words Rhyming BRANT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BRANT AS A WHOLE:
| adumbrant | adjective (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth. |
| brant | noun (n.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species. |
| adjective (a.) Steep. | |
| adjective (a.) Steep; high. | |
| adjective (a.) Smooth; unwrinkled. |
| brantail | noun (n.) The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail. |
| celebrant | noun (n.) One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants. |
| obumbrant | adjective (a.) Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers. |
| terebrant | adjective (a.) Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies. |
| terebrantia | noun (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies. |
| vibrant | adjective (a.) Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRANT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rant) - English Words That Ends with rant:
| aberrant | adjective (a.) Wandering; straying from the right way. |
| adjective (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. |
| administrant | noun (n.) One who administers. |
| adjective (a.) Executive; acting; managing affairs. |
| adulterant | noun (n.) That which is used to adulterate anything. |
| adjective (a.) Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes. |
| alterant | noun (n.) An alterative. |
| adjective (a.) Altering; gradually changing. |
| amarant | noun (n.) Amaranth, 1. |
| arrant | adjective (a.) Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. |
| adjective (a.) Thorough or downright, in a good sense. |
| aspirant | noun (n.) One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment. |
| adjective (a.) Aspiring. |
| calcitrant | adjective (a.) Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory. |
| cauterant | noun (n.) A cauterizing substance. |
| commorant | noun (n.) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting. |
| noun (n.) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily. | |
| noun (n.) A resident. |
| conflagrant | adjective (a.) Burning together in a common flame. |
| conspirant | adjective (a.) Engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring. |
| contraremonstrant | noun (n.) One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant. |
| cooperant | adjective (a.) Operating together; as, cooperant forces. |
| corant | noun (n.) Alt. of Coranto |
| cormorant | noun (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. |
| noun (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. |
| corroborant | noun (n.) Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic. |
| adjective (a.) Strengthening; supporting; corroborating. |
| corvorant | noun (n.) See Cormorant. |
| courant | adjective (a.) Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms. |
| (p. pr.) A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto. | |
| (p. pr.) A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper. |
| currant | noun (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. |
| noun (n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant. | |
| noun (n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. |
| declarant | noun (n.) One who declares. |
| decolorant | noun (n.) A substance which removes color, or bleaches. |
| delirant | adjective (a.) Delirious. |
| deodorant | noun (n.) A deodorizer. |
| depurant | noun (a. & n.) Depurative. |
| durant | noun (n.) See Durance, 3. |
| edulcorant | noun (n.) An edulcorant remedy. |
| adjective (a.) Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony. |
| emigrant | noun (n.) One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another. |
| verb (v. i.) Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation. | |
| verb (v. i.) Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital. |
| endurant | adjective (a.) Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. |
| entrant | noun (n.) One who enters; a beginner. |
| noun (n.) An applicant for admission. |
| equinumerant | adjective (a.) Equal as to number. |
| equiponderant | adjective (a.) Being of the same weight. |
| errant | noun (n.) One who wanders about. |
| adjective (a.) Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. | |
| adjective (a.) Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant. | |
| adjective (a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. |
| essorant | adjective (a.) Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon. |
| exhilarant | noun (n.) That which exhilarates. |
| adjective (a.) Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure. |
| expectorant | noun (n.) An expectorant medicine. |
| adjective (a.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. |
| expirant | noun (n.) One who expires or is expiring. |
| extuberant | adjective (a.) Swollen out; protuberant. |
| exuberant | adjective (a.) Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage. |
| exuperant | adjective (a.) Surpassing; exceeding; surmounting. |
| figurant | noun (n. masc.) One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part. |
| flagrant | adjective (a.) Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. |
| adjective (a.) Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. | |
| adjective (a.) Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked. |
| forbearant | adjective (a.) Forbearing. |
| fragrant | adjective (a.) Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. |
| fulgurant | adjective (a.) Lightening. |
| generant | noun (n.) That which generates. |
| noun (n.) A generatrix. | |
| adjective (a.) Generative; producing | |
| adjective (a.) acting as a generant. |
| gerant | noun (n.) The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc. |
| gyrant | adjective (a.) Gyrating. |
| hydrant | noun (n.) A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug. |
| ignorant | noun (n.) A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous. |
| adjective (a.) Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened. | |
| adjective (a.) Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with of. | |
| adjective (a.) Unknown; undiscovered. | |
| adjective (a.) Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ant) - English Words That Ends with ant:
| abdicant | noun (n.) One who abdicates. |
| adjective (a.) Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of. |
| abeyant | adjective (a.) Being in a state of abeyance. |
| abirritant | noun (n.) A medicine that diminishes irritation. |
| abradant | noun (n.) A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc. |
| absonant | adjective (a.) Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. |
| abundant | adjective (a.) Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. |
| acceptant | noun (n.) An accepter. |
| adjective (a.) Accepting; receiving. |
| accomptant | noun (n.) See Accountant. |
| accordant | adjective (a.) Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. |
| accountant | noun (n.) One who renders account; one accountable. |
| noun (n.) A reckoner. | |
| noun (n.) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. | |
| adjective (a.) Accountable. |
| accusant | noun (n.) An accuser. |
| acquaintant | noun (n.) An acquaintance. |
| adamant | noun (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. |
| noun (n.) Lodestone; magnet. |
| adhamant | adjective (a.) Clinging, as by hooks. |
| adjoinant | adjective (a.) Contiguous. |
| adjuvant | noun (n.) A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies. |
| noun (n.) A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient. | |
| noun (n.) An assistant. | |
| noun (n.) An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. | |
| adjective (a.) Helping; helpful; assisting. |
| adjutant | noun (n.) A helper; an assistant. |
| noun (n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. | |
| noun (n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits. |
| adragant | noun (n.) Gum tragacanth. |
| affiant | noun (n.) One who makes an affidavit. |
| affirmant | noun (n.) One who affirms or asserts. |
| noun (n.) One who affirms, instead of taking an oath. |
| agglutinant | noun (n.) Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere. |
| adjective (a.) Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. |
| aidant | adjective (a.) Helping; helpful; supplying aid. |
| albicant | adjective (a.) Growing or becoming white. |
| alicant | noun (n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. |
| aliquant | adjective (a.) An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot. |
| allegiant | adjective (a.) Loyal. |
| alliant | noun (n.) An ally; a confederate. |
| altisonant | adjective (a.) High-sounding; lofty or pompous. |
| altivolant | adjective (a.) Flying high. |
| ambulant | adjective (a.) Walking; moving from place to place. |
| amplectant | adjective (a.) Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. |
| annuitant | noun (n.) One who receives, or its entitled to receive, an annuity. |
| ant | noun (n.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire. |
| anticipant | adjective (a.) Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. |
| apophlegmatizant | noun (n.) An apophlegmatic. |
| appealant | noun (n.) An appellant. |
| appellant | noun (n.) One who accuses another of felony or treason. |
| noun (n.) One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal. | |
| noun (n.) A challenger. | |
| noun (n.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus. | |
| noun (n.) One who appeals or entreats. | |
| adjective (a.) Relating to an appeal; appellate. |
| appendant | noun (n.) Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it. |
| noun (n.) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance. | |
| verb (v. t.) Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. | |
| verb (v. t.) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. |
| applicant | noun (n.) One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. |
| appreciant | adjective (a.) Appreciative. |
| appurtenant | noun (n.) Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. |
| adjective (a.) Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. |
| arcboutant | noun (n.) A flying buttress. |
| armisonant | adjective (a.) Alt. of Armisonous |
| arrogant | adjective (a.) Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. |
| adjective (a.) Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior. |
| ascendant | noun (n.) Ascent; height; elevation. |
| noun (n.) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune. | |
| noun (n.) Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another. | |
| noun (n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Ascendent |
| ascessant | adjective (a.) See Acescency, Acescent. |
| asonant | adjective (a.) Not sounding or sounded. |
| aspectant | adjective (a.) Facing each other. |
| assailant | noun (n.) One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer. |
| adjective (a.) Assailing; attacking. |
| assistant | noun (n.) One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. |
| noun (n.) An attendant; one who is present. | |
| adjective (a.) Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BRANT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (bran) - Words That Begins with bran:
| bran | noun (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain. |
| noun (n.) The European carrion crow. |
| brancard | noun (n.) A litter on which a person may be carried. |
| branch | noun (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. |
| noun (n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. | |
| noun (n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department. | |
| noun (n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola. | |
| noun (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family. | |
| noun (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters. | |
| adjective (a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify. | |
| verb (v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision. | |
| verb (v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in. | |
| verb (v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. |
| branching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Branch |
| noun (n.) The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. | |
| adjective (a.) Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. |
| brancher | noun (n.) That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions. |
| noun (n.) A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches. |
| branchery | noun (n.) A system of branches. |
| branchia | noun (n.) A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have. |
| branchial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills. |
| branchiate | adjective (a.) Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments. |
| branchiferous | adjective (a.) Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods. |
| branchiness | noun (n.) Fullness of branches. |
| branchiogastropoda | noun (n. pl.) Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata. |
| branchiomerism | noun (n.) The state of being made up of branchiate segments. |
| branchiopod | noun (n.) One of the Branchiopoda. |
| branchiopoda | noun (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense. |
| branchiostegal | noun (n.) A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. |
| branchiostegous | adjective (a.) Branchiostegal. |
| branchiostoma | noun (n.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. |
| branchiura | noun (n. pl.) A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus). |
| branchless | adjective (a.) Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked. |
| branchlet | noun (n.) A little branch; a twig. |
| branchy | adjective (a.) Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. |
| branding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brand |
| brander | noun (n.) One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. |
| noun (n.) A gridiron. |
| brandied | adjective (a.) Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches. |
| brandishing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brandish |
| brandish | noun (n.) To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish. |
| noun (n.) To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms. | |
| noun (n.) A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc. |
| brandisher | noun (n.) One who brandishes. |
| brandling | noun (n.) Alt. of Brandlin |
| brandlin | noun (n.) Same as Branlin, fish and worm. |
| brandy | noun (n.) A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain. |
| brandywine | noun (n.) Brandy. |
| brangle | noun (n.) A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. |
| verb (v. i.) To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble. |
| brangling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brangle |
| noun (n.) A quarrel. |
| branglement | noun (n.) Wrangle; brangle. |
| brangler | noun (n.) A quarrelsome person. |
| brank | noun (n.) Buckwheat. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Branks | |
| verb (v. i.) To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. | |
| verb (v. i.) To prance; to caper. |
| branks | noun (n.) A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. |
| noun (n.) A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold. |
| brankursine | noun (n.) Bear's-breech, or Acanthus. |
| branlin | noun (n.) A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron. |
| noun (n.) A small red worm or larva, used as bait for small fresh-water fish; -- so called from its red color. |
| branny | adjective (a.) Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran. |
| bransle | noun (n.) A brawl or dance. |
| branular | adjective (a.) Relating to the brain; cerebral. |
| brandenburg | noun (n.) A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (bra) - Words That Begins with bra:
| brabantine | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands. |
| brabble | noun (n.) A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. |
| verb (v. i.) To clamor; to contest noisily. |
| brabblement | noun (n.) A brabble. |
| brabbler | noun (n.) A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. |
| braccate | adjective (a.) Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet. |
| brace | noun (n.) That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop. |
| noun (n.) A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum. | |
| noun (n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell. | |
| noun (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves. | |
| noun (n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon. | |
| noun (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock. | |
| noun (n.) A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt. | |
| noun (n.) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders. | |
| noun (n.) Harness; warlike preparation. | |
| noun (n.) Armor for the arm; vantbrace. | |
| noun (n.) The mouth of a shaft. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace a beam in a building. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd. | |
| verb (v. t.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the yards. | |
| verb (v. i.) To get tone or vigor; to rouse one's energies; -- with up. |
| bracing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brace |
| noun (n.) The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a brace or braces; the state of being braced. | |
| noun (n.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the bracing of a truss. | |
| adjective (a.) Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as, a bracing north wind. |
| bracelet | noun (n.) An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls. |
| noun (n.) A piece of defensive armor for the arm. |
| bracer | noun (n.) That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage. |
| noun (n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. | |
| noun (n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body. |
| brach | noun (n.) A bitch of the hound kind. |
| brachelytra | noun (n. pl.) A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles. |
| brachia | noun (n. pl.) See Brachium. |
| brachial | adjective (a.) Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve. |
| adjective (a.) Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm. |
| brachiata | noun (n. pl.) A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea. |
| brachiate | adjective (a.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac. |
| brachioganoid | noun (n.) One of the Brachioganoidei. |
| brachioganoidei | noun (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii. |
| brachiolaria | noun (n. pl.) A peculiar early larval stage of certain starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of bands of vibrating cilia. |
| brachiopod | noun (n.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell. |
| brachiopoda | noun (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle. |
| brachium | noun (n.) The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow. |
| brachman | noun (n.) See Brahman. |
| brachycatalectic | noun (n.) A verse wanting two syllables at its termination. |
| brachycephalic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Brachycephalous |
| brachycephalous | adjective (a.) Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic. |
| brachycephaly | noun (n.) Alt. of Brachycephalism |
| brachycephalism | noun (n.) The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head. |
| brachyceral | adjective (a.) Having short antennae, as certain insects. |
| brachydiagonal | noun (n.) The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. |
| brachydome | noun (n.) A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome. |
| brachygrapher | noun (n.) A writer in short hand; a stenographer. |
| brachygraphy | noun (n.) Stenography. |
| brachylogy | noun (n.) Conciseness of expression; brevity. |
| brachypinacoid | noun (n.) A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis. |
| brachyptera | noun (n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles. |
| brachypteres | noun (n.pl.) A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins. |
| brachypterous | adjective (a.) Having short wings. |
| brachystochrone | noun (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid. |
| brachytypous | adjective (a.) Of a short form. |
| brachyura | noun (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix. |
| brachyural | adjective (a.) Alt. of Brachyurous |
| brachyurous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Brachyura. |
| brachyuran | noun (n.) One of the Brachyura. |
| brack | noun (n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. |
| noun (n.) Salt or brackish water. |
| bracken | noun (n.) A brake or fern. |
| bracket | noun (n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office. |
| noun (n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles. | |
| noun (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. | |
| noun (n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage. | |
| noun (n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet. | |
| noun (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets. | |
| verb (v. t.) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object). |
| bracketing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bracket |
| noun (n.) A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively. |
| brackish | adjective (a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. |
| brackishness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt. |
| bracky | adjective (a.) Brackish. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BRANT:
English Words which starts with 'br' and ends with 'nt':
| brent | noun (n.) A brant. See Brant. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Brant | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Brenne | |
| (imp. & p. p.) Burnt. |
| brilliant | adjective (a.) A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below. |
| adjective (a.) The smallest size of type used in England printing. | |
| adjective (a.) A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving. | |
| (p. pr.) Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star. | |
| (p. pr.) Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration; splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents. |
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