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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The force of a blow; shock; collision. “And heavy brunt of cannon ball.” Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Grunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grunting. ] [ OE. grunten; akin to As. grunian, G. grunzen, Dan. grynte, Sw. grymta; all prob. of imitative; or perh. akin to E. groan. ] To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grunting ox (Zool.), the yak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (Haemulon Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (Haemulon aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A U. S. infantryman; -- used especially of those fighting in the war in Vietnam. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog. “Bristled grunters.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of several American marine fishes. See Sea robin, and Grunt, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Brass Founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a grunting manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Freq. of grunt. ] To grunt; to grunt repeatedly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A young hog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also rant. ] [ Scot. runt an old cow, an old, withered woman, a hardened stem or stalk, the trunk of a tree; cf. D. rund a bullock, an ox or cow, G. rind. Cf. Rother, a. ] 1. (Zool.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before I buy a bargain of such runts,
I'll buy a college for bears, and live among 'em. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a runt; diminutive; mean. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., they sat, fr. sedere to sit. ] A sitting, as of a court or other body. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is pity we have not Burns's own account of that long sederunt. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acts of sederunt (Scots Law), ordinances of the Court of Session for the ordering of processes and expediting of justice. Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Sprout, v. i. ] To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To sprunt up, to draw one's self up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Anything short and stiff. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A leap; a spring. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A steep ascent in a road. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Active; lively; vigorous. [ Obs. ] Kersey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Spirituous liquor. [ Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]