brit

noun

1. (informal)A British person.
2. A Brit Award, a prize for musicians in Britain.
3. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
4. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.

   “The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.”

5. brit milah
6. A covenant, specifically that between God and the Jewish people.

   “The second theocentric approach to observance stresses the partnership of God and man. The Torah and the mitzvot express the eternal brit or covenant made between God and the Jewish people.”

   “There is a special brit between God and the Families-of-Israel. The Torah is the story of that brit”

   “When the Jews were expelled from Eretz Yisrael into galus, and were punished for their sins with the destruction of the first and second Temples, the bris between G-d and Yisrael is not ended.”

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of British.

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Britain.

   “If Brit joins Common Market . . .; terms for Brit's entry agreed upon, U S will face new econ, political, defense problems when Brit joins EEC; […]”

   “Worked extensively in Brit and USA on behaviour of biol fluids, particularly blood, also lectured in Brit, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Can, USA, 1960s; […]”

   “34 EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT (TCF, Dec) Irving Cummings; genre: Drama; locations: Switzerland, Brit, France; coding: Ital, Pol, Jew, Ger, US-Brit Coop, For Corr, Nazi, Atroc-Conc, Pacifism, Ref, Brit, Am Icons; biases: Anti-Nazi, Pacifist?.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of British English.
3. A short river in Dorset, England, which flows through Bridport to the sea at West Bay; in full, the River Brit.

verb

1. (transitive)To break in pieces; divide.
2. (transitive)To bruise; indent.
3. (intransitive)To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
4. (dialectal, intransitive)To fade away; alter.