Crossword-Solution: BRIEF
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Brief | a. | Short in duration. |
| Brief | a. | Concise; terse; succinct. |
| Brief | a. | Rife; common; prevalent. |
| Brief | adv. | Briefly. |
| Brief | adv. | Soon; quickly. |
| Brief | a. | A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words. |
| Brief | a. | An epitome. |
| Brief | a. | An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument. |
| Brief | a. | A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2. |
| Brief | n. | A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence. |
| Brief | n. | A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose. |
| Brief | v. t. | To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BRIEF | anagram | FIBER, FIBRE, FIREB |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
CNROEA
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with BRIEF (5)
Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief Constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty.
She scarse had said, though brief, when now more bold The Tempter, but with shew of Zeale and Love To Man, and indignation at his wrong, New part puts on, and as to passion mov’d, Fluctuats disturbd, yet comely, and in act Rais’d, as of som great matter to begin.
All the impassioned scenes of her brief experience seemed to revive with added emotion at that moment, and those scenes which had been without emotion during enactment had emotion then.
Friends, countrymen, my tidings are in sum That Oedipus is gone, but the event Was not so brief, nor can the tale be brief.
His pervading and continual hope—a hallucination, which, in the face of all discouragement, and making light of impossibilities, haunts him while he lives, and, I fancy, like the convulsive throes of the cholera, torments him for a brief space after death—is, that finally, and in no long time, by some happy coincidence of circumstances, he shall be restored to office.
Quotes with BRIEF (3)
He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything." I kind of scoffed …
I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to kno…
In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 122 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).