Brawl \Brawl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Brawled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Brawling}.] [OE. braulen to quarrel, boast, brallen to cry, make a noise; cf. LG. brallen to brag, MHG. pr?ulen, G. prahlen, F. brailler to cry, shout, Pr. brailar, braillar, W. bragal to vociferate, brag, Armor. bragal to romp, to strut, W. broliaw to brag, brawl boast. ?95.] 1. To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. --Golden Boke.
2. To complain loudly; to scold.
3. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
Where the brook brawls along the painful road. --Wordsworth.
Syn: To wrangle; squabble; contend.
Brawl \Brawl\, n. A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl.
His sports were hindered by the brawls. --Shak.
Syn: Noise; quarrel; uproar; row; tumult.
A poker-game ends in a brawl and one of the players, a Swede, is killed.
Meanwhile, 12 men were hurt in a brawl among followers of opposing candidates in the town of Marantao in nearby Lanao Del Sur province.
Third, and more seriously, a good constitutional brawl can contribute now and then to a healthy democracy.
An argument between two inmates escalated into a full-scale brawl between black and Hispanic prisoners at an overcrowded county jail, and three inmates were seriously injured, officials said.
With Congress set for a brawl over taxes, it's time to burst a bubble.
The turmoil was prompted by the June 2 slaying of a university student in an off-campus brawl.
The letter-writing campaign follows a brawl between African students and Chinese on Christmas Eve in Nanking.
A taxi driver died of a heart attack after a brawl with five British men who sprayed his passengers with beer, police in this resort town said Saturday.
At the beginning of the second half Fiorentina fans broke through a police barrier in the stands and a brawl broke out.
A high-stakes brawl continues today when leaders of the world's two biggest computer companies unite with five others to challenge American Telephone & Telegraph Co. over computer operating standards.
A dispute over three cases of leftover wine at a wedding reception erupted into a brawl, which ended with the arrest of the bride's father and of members of the wedding party.
Rivera's nose was broken Thursday in a brawl that broke out during the taping of an episode of his syndicated TV show on Young Hatemongers.
Drexel sources, speaking privately, have acknowledged that the firm's senior management is preparing for a legal brawl with the SEC and has briefed lower-level staff on what to possibly expect in the weeks and months ahead.
"There is no row, no brawl or so on," Mr. Morton said.
The fatal fight came a day after Los Angeles Police Department officials and Nation of Islam leaders met to discuss easing tense relations with law enforcement following a Jan. 3 street brawl between police and Muslims that followed a traffic stop.
It's not a brawl, but a sport attracting an increasing number of young professionals: boxing.
One contender in the brawl was Antonio Lacayo, Mrs. Chamorro's son-in-law and campaign manager.
Tuesday's brawl broke out when Speaker Liang Su-yung of the Nationalists tried to end a filibuster by Democratic Progressive legislators by calling for a vote on government bills on the employment and salaries for civil servants.
But late last year, Italy's European standard bearers got into a brawl that is tying them down at home and distracting their efforts to expand abroad.
Fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger can see more of their hero than usual in "Red Heat," which features an opening sequence of a near-naked brawl in a Soviet sauna.
In 1965, a 14-minute brawl broke out during a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants after Giants pitcher Juan Marichal hit Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with his bat, accusing Roseboro of throwing too close to his head.
The incident at the Zhejiang Agriculture University in Hangzhou took place against the backdrop of continued anti-black demonstrations in Nanking, where Chinese students are demanding that African students involved in a Christmas Eve brawl be punished.
Chinese authorities on Tuesday released Alex Dosoo of Ghana, the last of three African students arrested in Nanking for allegedly taking part in the Christmas Eve brawl.
The recent incident in Ranong (in which drunken soldiers are alleged to have attacked a police station after a brawl) shows there are still problems. Chuan: It will take time for everyone to accept that the military should be professional.
A brawl broke out on a ferry crossing the English Channel, and the crew was forced to return to port at Cherbourg where 13 young British men were arrested, French immigration police said Sunday.
It unilaterally canceled a joint U.S.-European solar probe a few years ago, and now an unseemly brawl has broken out between the Defense Department and NASA over foreign participation in the space station.
The current unrest was prompted by the June 2 slaying of a Beijing University student in an off-campus brawl.
No hold barred," Dawkins says. "This is a barroom brawl." The two men in the race come from widely differing backgrounds and styles.
When the president is personally engaged on a big issue, he sometimes shows he still has the stomach to brawl.
The guards fired 10 shots from their second-story posts to break up the brawl.