Bone breccia
,
a breccia containing bones, usually fragmentary. — Coin breccia, a breccia containing
coins.
Brecciated
(Brec"ci*a`ted) a. Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in
appearance.
The brecciated appearance of many specimens [of meteorites].
H. A. Newton.
Bred
(Bred) imp. & p. p. of Breed.
Bred out,
degenerated. "The strain of man's bred out into baboon and monkey." Shak. — Bred to
arms. See under Arms. — Well bred. (a) Of a good family; having a good pedigree. "A gentleman
well bred and of good name." Shak. [Obs., except as applied to domestic animals.] (b) Well brought
up, as shown in having good manners; cultivated; refined; polite.
Brede
(Brede, or Breede) n. Breadth. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Brede
(Brede) n. [See Braid woven cord.] A braid. [R.]
Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede.
Tennyson.
Breech
(Breech) n. [See Breeches.]
1. The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
2. Breeches. [Obs.] Shak.
3. The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.
4. (Naut.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
Breech
(Breech), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breeched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Breeching ]
1. To put into, or clothe with, breeches.
A great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched.
Macaulay.
2. To cover as with breeches. [Poetic]
Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.
Shak.
3. To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.
4. To whip on the breech. [Obs.]
Had not a courteous serving man conveyed me away, whilst he went to fetch whips, I think, in my conscience,
he would have breeched me.
Old Play.
5. To fasten with breeching.
Breechblock
(Breech"block) n. The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm,
and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and
closed again before the gun is fired.
Breechcloth
(Breech"cloth`) n. A cloth worn around the breech.