"Brief" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In general. A written docu-ment; a letter; a writing in the form of a letter. A summary, abstract, or epitome. A condensed statement of some larger document, or of a series of papers, facts, or prop-ositions
A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
Short in duration.
Concise; terse; succinct.
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.
Soon; quickly.
To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to
brief pleadings.
A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a
collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any
public or private purpose.
Rife; common; prevalent.
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.
Briefly.
An epitome.
A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a protruding root, of the bent edges of wetness on a drying headstone. I quit smoking so I could sharpen my sense of smell, because the scent of earth after a rain has a clarifying effect on graveyard reading, as if the page were made whiter and the ink darker. I began to listen to the wind, and to the voices of birds and small animals, insects and people; because to the educated ear, every sound is filtered through the story written on graves, and becomes a part of it.("The Graveyard Reader")
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