different between brazil vs brail

English

Alternative forms

• brasil, Brazil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.?z?l/
• Hyphenation: bra?zil
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

brazil (plural brazils)

1. (obsolete) A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva sylvarum:

     A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.

2. The hard, brown wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally the sappan, Biancaea sappan, of the East Indies, and later the brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata. [from 15th c.]
   • 1594, Thomas Blundeville, Exercises:

     The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill.

   • 1886, Francis Quarles, Emblems

     Thou know'st my brittle temper's prone to break.
     Are my bones brazil or my flesh of oak?

   • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 198:

     [P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.

3. A Brazil nut.

   I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.

4. A seam of coal containing iron pyrites

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?br?zil]
• Hyphenation: bra?zil
• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

brazil (not comparable)

1. Brazilian (of, from, or relating to Brazil, or the Brazilian people)

Noun

brazil (plural brazilok)

1. Brazilian (a person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent)

Declension

Related terms

• Brazília

English

Etymology

From Middle English brayle, from Old French braiel, from Medieval Latin bracale (“girdle”) (from bracae (“breeches”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?e?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

brail (plural brails)

1. (nautical) A small rope used to truss up sails.
2. (falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
3. A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
4. (theater) A rope or line used to suspend lights or scenery in a certain position.
5. (in the plural) The feathers around a hawk's rump.

Verb

brail (third-person singular simple present brails, present participle brailing, simple past and past participle brailed)

1. To reef, shorten or strike sail using brails.

References

• brail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

Anagrams

• Arbil, Baril, Blair, Bliar, Libra, Rabil, libra

Middle English

Noun

brail

1. Alternative form of brayle

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English barail.

Noun

brail (plural brailès)

1. barrel

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN