Search Result for "bruin":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox';
2. large ferocious bear of Eurasia;
[syn: brown bear, bruin, Ursus arctos]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
bruin \bru"in\, n. [D. bruin brown. In the epic poem of "Reynard the Fox" the bear is so called from his color. See Brown, a.] A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables. [1913 Webster]The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (17 December 2009):
BRUIN Brown University Interactive Language. A simple interactive language with PL/I-like syntax, for IBM 360. ["Meeting the Computational Requirements of the University, Brown University Interactive Language", R.G. Munck, Proc 24th ACM Conf, 1969]. (1995-02-14)U.S. Gazetteer (1990):
Bruin, PA (borough, FIPS 9528) Location: 41.05510 N, 79.72733 W Population (1990): 646 (262 housing units) Area: 4.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16022
