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Brickle
- adjective - having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
Bricole
- noun - an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
Brindle
- adjective - having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
Bristle
- noun - a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
- a stiff hair
- be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers"
- have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles; "bristling leaves"
- react in an offended or angry manner; "He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program"
- rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"
Brittle
- adjective - (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
- caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
- having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
- lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman"
Broggle
- - To sniggle, or fish with a brog.
Brustle
- - To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.
Crackle
- adjective - glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
- having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"
- make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl"
- make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel"
- the sharp sound of snapping noises
- to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
Crankle
- - To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.