These are the meanings of the letters NRBAILN when you unscramble them.
- Bairn (n.)
A child.
- Binal (a.)
Twofold; double.
- Blain (n.)
A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
- Blain (n.)
An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
- Brail (n.)
A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
- Brail (n.)
A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
- Brail (n.)
Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.
- Brail (v. t.)
To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.
- Brain (n.)
The affections; fancy; imagination.
- Brain (n.)
The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
- Brain (n.)
The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
- Brain (n.)
The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
- Brain (v. t.)
To conceive; to understand.
- Brain (v. t.)
To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
- Libra (n.)
A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio.
- Libra (n.)
The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc.