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  • bring forth
    [cf. Car, bring out idem; OED, give birth to, last quot. 1668 but also Biblical (cf. Matthew 1:23)] v. to
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  • bring down
    (US Black idem; help to sober a person (Major); DAS a critica or cutting remark; to depress, sadden; OED to
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  • brim (2)
    [US Black idem (Walker 1956:135); as variant form also in OED, DAE, DJE] n. a fish, the bream. (Eleu)
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  • brim (1)
    [cf. US Black brim a hat (Claerbaut)] n. a straw hat. (Black)
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  • Brilan
    /bráylan/ [by aphaeresis] n. Harbour Island, a cay off Eleuthera: 1936 'Brilan wuz all heat up 'bout dese 'lections (Dupuch
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  • bright-bright
    [cf. BRIGHT] adj. (of persons) having a very light brown complexion: Now my sister, she bright-bright (Nassau).
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  • bright
    adj. 1. also bright-skin [US Black idem (Major); cf. OED "Sally she a Badian bright mulatto" 1910 sea shanty; cf.
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  • briggadum-bram
    bruggadum-bram or -brum or -bam [Atlantic; cf. bragada(p), brigidi(m)-b(r)am(s) idem in WE,
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  • bridal bush
    (Inagua); bride bush (Andros) [OED bride bush bush hung out at the village alehouse in honour of a wedding] n.
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  • brickly top
    [cf. DAE brickley thatch brittle thatch or silver-top palmetto, Thrinax argentea; cf. US dial. South brickly brittle ADD] n. a
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