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Briefs

noun
1.
Short tight-fitting underpants (trade name Jockey shorts).  Synonym: Jockey shorts.



Brief

verb
1.
Give essential information to someone.



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"Briefs" Quotes from Famous Books



... good of my fellows. I feel the need which the world manifests for broader ideas in economics, politics, the philosophy of life, and all social questions. Feeling so, I cannot coop myself in a law library behind a pile of briefs, spending my days and nights in search of some authority which will save my client's dollar. I am unsettled, however, as to my ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... trembling fingers among the old briefs, and turned over the volume Sir Austin had observed, but without much remarking it, for his suspicions ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... city of Coningsborough (the king's town), and put himself as a catechumen under the care of Paulinus. The pope himself was induced to interest himself in so promising a convert; and he wrote a couple of briefs to Eadwine and his queen. These letters, the originals of which were carefully preserved at Rome, are copied out in full by Baeda. No doubt, the honour of receiving such an epistle from the pontiff of the Eternal City was not without its effect ...
— Early Britain - Anglo-Saxon Britain • Grant Allen

... little earlier in the paper, I am suggesting the sports—those activities that both rejuvenate the physical man and also "divert and make mirth." Into these we can not carry our teaching and our preaching and our making of social calls. The goods of the merchant, the notes of the banker, the briefs of the lawyer, the annoyances of the teacher, and the cares of the housewife, alike, would all have to be left behind. The mind could rest while the body and the spirit are being recreated. An hour a day, in the open air, with fears and anxieties and schemes all cast aside, in companionship ...
— On the Firing Line in Education • Adoniram Judson Ladd

... kingly power. Consequently, no one can have any mission to govern in the state any more than in the church, unless derived from God directly or indirectly through the Pope or Supreme Pontiff. Many theologians and canonists in the Middle Ages so held, and a few perhaps hold so still. The bulls and briefs of several Popes, as Gregory VII., Innocent Ill., Gregory IX., Innocent IV., and Boniface VIII., have the appearance ...
— The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson


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