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Definition of Brittly
1. in a brittle manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brittly
Literary usage of Brittly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-extermination in by Simón Bolívar (1828)
"... cutting brittly sand, which is lodged between the acclivities, and which caused
an inconceivable degree of torture, again heightened as they approached ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"... raye more numerous than the disk flou*ers: receptacle brittly: involucre viscid.
46. S. lanceolata, L. Stem pubescent above, corymbose ; leaves linear- ..."
3. An Account of New Zealand: And of the Formation and Progress of the Church by William Yate (1835)
"It produces a brittly, close-grained, durable wood, of a red colour; planes up
smoothly; and appears capable of receiving a high polish. ..."
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