These are the meanings of the letters BRIEF when you unscramble them.
- Brief (a.)
A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
- Brief (a.)
A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
- 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.)
An epitome.
- Brief (a.)
Concise; terse; succinct.
- Brief (a.)
Rife; common; prevalent.
- Brief (a.)
Short in duration.
- Brief (adv.)
Briefly.
- Brief (adv.)
Soon; quickly.
- 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 (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 (v. t.)
To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.
- Fiber (n.)
Alt. of Fibre
- fibre ()
A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.
- Fibre (n.)
A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
- Fibre (n.)
Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
- Fibre (n.)
One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
- Fibre (n.)
Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.