(of people or behaviour) Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless. / (of actions) Overly bold, impetuous or rash.

A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. / A sudden burst of rain. / (obsolete) An attack or assault.

(transitive, obsolete) To disturb.

(US, colloquial, dated) Brittle (said e.g. of wood or vegetables).

Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge. / (geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits. / Broken fragments of ice.

Resembling brass. / (informal) Impudent; impudently bold. / Unfeeling; pitiless. / Harsh in tone.

Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”) / Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.

(idiomatic, of the weather) Very cold.

(slang) A class ring bearing the image of a beaver, worn by graduates of MIT.

(Britain, idiomatic, informal) very cold