Words that rhyme with brassage

n 1: the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: dose, dosage] 2: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time [syn: dose, dosage]

n 1: a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled; "he sent a three-word message" 2: what a communication that is about something is about [syn: message, content, subject matter, substance] v 1: send a message to; "She messaged the committee" 2: send as a message; "She messaged the final report by fax" 3: send a message; "There is no messaging service at this company"

n 1: the act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn: passage, transition] 2: a section of text; particularly a section of medium length 3: a way through or along which someone or something may pass 4: the passing of a law by a legislative body [syn: enactment, passage] 5: a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days" [syn: passage, transit] 6: a short section of a musical composition [syn: passage, musical passage] 7: a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages" [syn: passage, passageway] 8: a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" [syn: passage, passing] 9: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: passing, passage] 10: the act of passing something to another person [syn: passage, handing over]

n 1: a foreboding about what is about to happen 2: a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy] v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]

n 1: highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings 2: a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon [syn: blimp, sausage balloon, sausage]

adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" [syn: feral, ferine, savage] 3: without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" [syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild] 4: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage] n 1: a member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage, barbarian] 2: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat] v 1: attack brutally and fiercely 2: criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify]

n 1: the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" [syn: use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise] 2: accepted or habitual practice [syn: custom, usage, usance] 3: the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written; "English usage"; "a usage borrowed from French"