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Definitions of brief
a. - Short in duration. ²
a. - Concise; terse; succinct. ²
a. - Rife; common; prevalent. ²
adv. - Briefly. ²
adv. - Soon; quickly. ²
a. - A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words. ²
a. - An epitome. ²
a. - An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument. ²
a. - A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2. ²
n. - A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence. ²
n. - A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose. ²
v. t. - To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings. ²

The word "brief" uses 5 letters: B E F I R.

Direct anagrams of brief:
  fiber   fibre

Words formed by adding one letter before or after brief (in bold), or to befir in any order:
b -   fibber   s -   briefs   fibers   fibres  

Shorter words found within brief:
be   bi   bier   brie   ef   er   fer   fib   fie   fir   fire   if   ire   re   reb   ref   rei   reif   rib   rif   rife  

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