Vocabulary : Braiding to Brainsick
Braiding : of Braid ;; The act of making or using braids. ;; Braids, collectively; trimming.Brail : A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing. ;; Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling. ;; A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched. ;; To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
Braille : A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.
Brain : The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain. ;; The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates. ;; The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding. ;; The affections; fancy; imagination. ;; To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat. ;; To conceive; to understand.
Brained : of Brain ;; Supplied with brains.
