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Definition of Bruting
1. brute [v] - See also: brute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bruting
Literary usage of Bruting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarchos, Donato Acciaiuoli (1895)
"... speaking of a certaine informer sayth thus : The bruting of his secret birth,
conveyed close away ..."
2. Ingenuity and Luxury by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams (1911)
""The bruting of diamonds consists in rubbing two diamonds together in such a way
that, by continual friction, each can be made to assume the desired shape. ..."
3. Precious Stones by Wilbert Goodchild, Robert Dykes (1908)
"In bruting, care must be taken not to overheat the stone by the friction, ...
When the bruting is completed the surfaces have somewhat the aspect of ground ..."
4. The Gem-cutter's Craft by Leopold Claremont (1906)
"The process consists of three different operations: "bruting," "polishing," ...
of diamonds consists of rubbing two bruting. diamonds together in such a way ..."
5. A History of Science by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams (1910)
""The bruting of diamonds consists in rubbing two diamonds together in such a way
that, by continual friction, each can be made to assume the desired shape. ..."
6. Precious Stones and Gems: Their History, Sources and Characteristics by Edwin William Streeter (1898)
"The cleaving, bruting, cutting, and polishing appertain to the art of the
diamond-cutter, whose aim is so to manipulate the rough stone, as to produce with ..."
7. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... bruting, eh t" " Yes," said the Briton, calmly, as he scanned his interlocutor
through what a novelist would call his unmoved eyeglass ; " this was the ..."
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