breast board (brestbord)

A weighted sled used in rope-walks to maintain the tension of while being twisted into a strand. ME. brest, breest, pl.) = OS. briost = OFries. briast = Icel. brjóst = Sw. bröst = Dan. bryst, neut., = IMG:content-2473.png:[blocks in formation] borst, NFries. borst = MLG. borst, LG. borst ation of vowel and gender) OFries. brust, burst, breast-chains (brest'chanz), n. pl. Chains used = D. borst = OHG. MHG. brust, G. brust, fem., = Goth. brusts, fem. pl., orig. perhaps a dual form; origin uncertain. Not being found out IMG:content-2474.png:[blocks in formation] side of Teut., the origin has been sought in the Teut. verb, AS. berstan, etc., E. burst: see breast cloth best some a bib for a child. burst.] 1. One of two soft protuberant bodies Wright. adhering to the thorax in women, in which the breast-deep (brest'dep), a. As deep as from milk is secreted for the nourishment of infants; the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. the mammary gland and a ociated structures. -2. The outer part of the thorax, or the external part of the body between the neck and the belly, in man and beasts. IMG:content-2475.png:[blocks in formation] The choice and removal of senators, however, was by no means left perfectly free to the censors, nor or had it been in the breast of the consuls and dictators before the insti tution of the censorial office. Brougham, 6t. In music, the chest; capacity for singing. An excellent song, and a sweet songster; a fine breast of his own. B. Jonson. Sir J. Hawkins , Hist. of Music, iii. 466. 7. Anything resembling the breast in position, either as being in front, like the human breast, or below, like the breast in the lower animals. Specifically (a) In agri., the front part of the mold-board of a plow. (b) In arch.: (1) The portion of a wall between a window and the floor. (2) The portion of a chimney between the flues and the apartment. E. H. Knight. (c) In carp., the lower surface of a hand-rail, rafter, etc. (d) In mining: (1) The chamber or room in which coal is being mined. (2) The face at which the working is going on. (3) In metal-mining, a point at which a large quantity of ore is being worked: as, a fine breast of ore. (e) The front part of a furnace. (f) Same as breasting, 1. In order that a wheel may be a breast wheel, it must be provided with the breast or circular trough. Rankine, Steam Engine, § 150. (g) The swelling portion of a hub. 8. That part of certain machines against which the breast of the operator pushes, as in the breast-drill, breast-plow, etc.-9t. A line on which persons or things are ranged abreast, or side by side. The troops marched in close order, the foot by twenty four in a breast , and the horse by sixteen. IMG:content-2476.png:[blocks in formation] Shak ., Tit. And., v. 3. Set him breast - deep in earth, and famish him. breast-drill (brest'dril), n. In mech ., a drillstock operated by a crank and bevel gearing, and having a piece against which the workman bears his breast when engaged in drilling. breasted (bres'ted), a . 1. Having a breast (of the kind indicated in composition): as, broad breasted , deep- breasted , etc.-2t. In music , having a chest: as, "singing men well breasted ," Fiddes , Life of Wolsey, App., p. 128.