brat2 (brat)

[First in early mod. E.; perhaps a particular use of brat1, a child's bib or apron, a rag, etc.: see brat1.] A child: now used only in contempt: as, "this brat is none of mine," Shak., W. T., ii. 3; "their dirty brats," Thackeray . O Israel! O household of the Lord! O Abraham's brats! O brood of ble ed seed! Gas coigne, De Pro fund is. Bra ica (bras'i-kä), n. [L. (> AS. bra ica , ME. bra ik , brasik ), cabbage.] A genus of crubrat3 (brat), n. [Cf. bret .] A local English ciferous plants, including more than a hundred species, all of which are natives of Europe and northern Asia. Several species have long been in cultivation, and are the origin of a large number of varieties of plants used as table vegetables and as fodder. B. oleracea has given rise to all the forms of cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kohl-rabi, kale, Bru els sprouts, etc., for their leaves or inflorescence, or, in the case of the kohlrabi, for the turnip-like enlargement of the stem. В. сат pestris is the parent of the turnip and of the rutabaga, in which the nourishment is stored in the root, and of the colza and rape, which are raised for the oil of the seed. B. alba and B. nigra are the white and black mustards. The charlock, B. Sin api strum, usually a troublesome weed, and some other species in the East, are sometimes cultivated, chiefly for their seeds. See cuts under broccoli and sprouts. bra ie, n. See bra y2.