(business) Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. (Used to contrast an Internet-based sales operation that lacks customer-oriented store fronts and a "traditional" one for which most capital investment might be in the building infrastructure.)

(UK) Buildings, especially domestic housing. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, and, mortar.

A young woman who is too young to be a full bridesmaid, but too old to be a flower girl. The junior bridesmaid usually walks down the aisle unaccompanied by a groomsman, but can be accompanied if the wedding party has an uneven number of people.

(manner) In a brief manner, summarily. / (duration) For a brief period. / To be brief, in short.

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the wife of Celtchar. Her husband Celtchar killed Blaí Briugu for sleeping with her as Blaí Briugu was required to do so by the latter's geas.

The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins. / (figuratively) A restraint; a curb; a check.

(transitive) To put a bridle on. / (transitive) To check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue. / (intransitive) To show hostility or resentment.

(nautical) a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.

Alternative form of brigandine

(nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast / (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.