Briggs

[ brigz ]

noun

1. Henry, 1561–1630, English mathematician.

Briggs

/ brɪɡz /

noun

1. BriggsHenry15611631MEnglishSCIENCE: mathematician Henry . 1561–1631, English mathematician: introduced common logarithms

Example Sentences

A nonprofit with a watchdoggy name sues, with Briggs as its attorney.

From Voice of San Diego

The developer settles the case and pays Briggs for his trouble.

From Voice of San Diego

In 2011, CalGEM ordered Pacific Coast Energy to lower the amount of steam it was injecting, Briggs said.

From ProPublica

According to Briggs, engineers at the oil agency said that the steam being injected into the diatomite was causing it to swell like a balloon, placing pressure on the formation above, which sprang myriad leaks.

From ProPublica

Briggs has sued the city of San Diego multiple times in his career, and now he seeks to replace current city attorney Mara Elliot.

From Voice of San Diego

Mixner himself went to then California Gov. Ronald Reagan to seek his support in nixing the Briggs Amendment.

From The Daily Beast

The notion of anarchy so appalled the conservative Reagan, he came out against Briggs, and it was defeated.

From The Daily Beast

But the Supreme Court agreed to hear Briggs, which it then combined into Brown.

From The Daily Beast

Then in 1951 came his famous dissent in Briggs v. Elliott, in which he wrote the sentence I quote above.

From The Daily Beast

“I was warned not to go into the Tropicana, very, very severely,” Briggs once told me.

From The Daily Beast

Startlingly Mrs. Briggs laughed, shrilly, unpleasantly, as a woman laughs in great fear.

From Project Gutenberg

I confess I am; Raymond Briggs always chills me when he casts his eye over my front elevation.

From Project Gutenberg

At present Raymond Briggs cannot get away from the subject of the newspapers and their unaccountable lateness.

From Project Gutenberg

And as Philip did not intend to be sat upon by Raymond Briggs or anybody, he acted well, nay, even nobly.

From Project Gutenberg

One morning Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Garden came in in the very middle of one of these galas of the intellect.

From Project Gutenberg