Chapter Brightness to Bulbul of B by Soule's Synonymes

Bruise, n. Contusion.

Bruit, n. Rumor, fame, report, hearsay, town-talk.

Bruit, v. a. Report, noise, blaze, blazon, or spread abroad.

Brunt, n. Shock, heat of onset.

Brush, n.

1. Skirmish, engagement, rencounter, encounter, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair.

2. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, underwood, brushwood.

Brushwood, n. Underwood, shrubs, bushes, brush.

Brusque, Brusk, a. Rude, rough, blunt, unceremonious, abrupt, bluff, gruff, ungentle, uncivil, ungracious, bearish, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite.

Brutal, a.

1. Savage, ferocious, cruel, inhuman, unfeeling, barbarous, barbarian, fell, barbaric, ruthless, truculent, bloody, brutish, brute.

2. Churlish, gruff, bearish, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, impolite, unmannerly, brusque, ungentlemanly.

3. Gross, coarse, sensual, carnal, brutish, beastly, bestial.

Brutality, n. Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart.

Brute, n.

1. Beast (in a wild state), quadruped, four-footed animal, ferocious animal.

2. Ruffian, barbarian, brutal monster.

Brute, a.

1. Irrational, void of reason.

2. Dumb, speechless, inarticulate, silent, voiceless, destitute of language.

3. Bestial, savage, barbarous. See brutal.

4. Rough, rude, uncivilized.