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De - Pt| English Dictionary: brunt | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for brunt | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Brunt \Brunt\ (br[ucr]nt), n. [OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. {Burn}, v. t.] 1. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle. 2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. [bd]And heavy brunt of cannon ball.[b8] --Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. --I. Taylor. | |
