A chemical reagent which is used in radical substitution and electrophilic addition reactions in organic chemistry. NBS can be considered a convenient source of cationic bromine.

Bruised, or Injured with blows, wounds, or other casualty. Cowell.

A bawdy-house ; a house of ill fame; a common habitation of prostitutes.

One person is a brother “of the whole blood ” to another, the former being a male, when both are born from the same father and mother. He is a […]

A wife’s brother or a sister’s husband. There is not any relationship , but only affinity, between brothers-in-law. Farmers’ L. & T. Co. v. Iowa Water Co. (C. C.) 80 […]

A new accounting period ‘s balance that has been transferred from the previous period.

The act of bringing a previously recognised value that was determined in the past, e.g. a balance brought forward from the previous accounting period at the start of a new […]

the term used when a suit is brought to trial when the trial has already started.

A Bridge Router or brouter is a network device that works as a bridge and as a router. The brouter routes packets for known protocols and simply forwards all other […]

A meeting that occurs during lunch, but lunch will not be provided by the company (meaning its ok to bring food/drinks into the meeting).

The practice of bringing one’s own packed lunch to work or the practice of bringing one’s own liquor to a restaurant or club that cannot sell alcoholic beverages.

Small appliance refers to a class of home appliances that are portable or semi-portable or which are used on tabletops, countertops, or other platforms in the United States of America […]

Brownfield sites are abandoned or underused industrial and commercial facilities available for re-use. Expansion or redevelopment of such a facility may be complicated by real or perceived environmental contaminations.

A power outage (also known as a power cut, power failure, power loss, or blackout) is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area.

A person who looks casually through books or magazines or at things for sale, an animal that feeds mainly on high-growing vegetation or a program with a graphical user interface […]

Web caching is the caching of web documents (e.g., HTML pages, images) to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag. A web cache stores copies of documents passing through […]

Survey objects casually, esp. goods for sale, scan through a book or magazine superficially to gain an impression of the contents, read or survey (data files), typically via a network […]

In old English law . A heath ground; ground where heath grows. Spelman.

See BRIGBOTE.

In old English law . A wood or grove; a thicket or clump of trees in a park or forest. Cowell.

In medical jurisprudence . A contusion; an injury upon the flesh of a person with a blunt or heavy instrument , without solution of continuity, or without breaking the skin. […]

In old Swedish law. The child of a woman conceiving after a rape, which was made legitimate . Literally, the child of a struggle. Burrill.

Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report , from the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) was published in 1987.

A list of classification of commodities for Customs purposes which is also used as a basis for their freight tariff by many shipping lines. Each commodity has a unique code […]

An empty noise; an empty threat