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Show BR BR Boaftbrag. [fro / Bra'cearpIsM fulnels; vain oftentation Bra'GGART. adj. [from brag.] Boaftful vainly oftentatious Shall I, none's flave, of high born or rais'd me Fear frowns; and my miftrefs truth, betray the Donne clean.sh data import.tsv out README To th® huffing, braggart, puft nobility BrA'GGART. 7. /. [from brag.] A boafter Who knows himfelf a braggart " Let him fear this; for it will come to pafs That every braggart fhall be found an afs. Shak BRA'GGER. 7 /. [from brag.] A boafter an oftentatious fellow Such as have had opportunity to found thef ‘braggers thoroughly, by having fometimes endure the penance of their fottifh company, have foun South clean.sh data import.tsv out README them, in converfe, empty and infipid Withou Bra'cLEss. adj, [from brag. without oftentation a boaft The bruit is, Heétor's flain, and by Achilles. -If it is fo, braglefs let it be Great Heor was as good a man as he Shake/p Bra'GLY. adv. [from brag.] Finely ; f as it may be bragged b Seeft not thilk hawthorn ftud How bragly it begins to bud And utter his tender head Flora now calleth forth each flower Clofe the ferpent fly Infinuating, wove with gordian twin His braided train, and of his fatal guil Milron Gave proof unheeded Ofier wands, lying loofely, may each of them b but, when braide "info a bafket, they cohere ftrongly Boyle A ribband did the braided trefles bind clean.sh data import.tsv out README The reft was loofe, and wanton'd in the wind Since in braided gold her foot is bound ' And a long trailing manteau {weeps the ground Gay Braip. #. /. [from the verb.] A' texture a knot, or complication of {fomethin woven together Liften where thou art fitting Under the glofly, cool, tranflucent wave In twifted braids of lilies knittin " The loofe train of thy amber-dropping hair. Milton No longer fhall thy comely trefles brea In flowing ringlets on thy fnowy neck Or fit behind thy head, an ample round In graceful braids,with various ribbon bound.Prior Brarp. adj. [To brede, in Chaucer, is t - deceive.] An old word, which feems t fignify deceitful Since Frenchmen are fo-braid Marry 'em that will the fails of a thip and ar faftened a the fkirt of the fail to the crengles. Thei ufe is, when the {ail is furled acrofs, t _hail up its bunt, that it may the mor _readily be taken up or let fall. Harris BRAIN. #. f {bpzzen, Sax. breyne ' Dutch. 1. That collettion of veflels and organ i the head, from which fenfe and mo -tion arife The brain is divided into cerebrum and cerebellum. Cerchrum is that partiof the brain which poflefie all the upper and forepart of the cramium, bein feparated from the cercbellum by the fecond- pro Vor. That virtue muft go through Shakefpeare In every buth and brake, where hap may fin The ferpent fleeping Milton Full little thougit of him the gentle knight upon trial, I find it very true. Brown's Vaulg. Evr 2. That part in which the underftandin is placed;, therefore taken for the un Who The force they are under is a real force, an one /the one but in their brains, the othe thoulders A man js firft a geometricia common Hale the affeftions: this is no no proper had he a hand to write this, dafh out the brains ; to kill by beatin out the brains Brake. n. / 1. A Fit to be thot'and brain'd, without:a procefs To ftop infection ; that 's their proper death more Dryden and headlon caft BRA'MBLE. #. /. [bpemlay, Sax. rubas Lat. 1. The blackberry buth; the rafpberr bufh, or hindberry On wildings and on ftrawberries they fed Cornels and bramble berries gave the reft And falling acorns furnifh'd-out a feaft. - Dryden 2. It is taken, in popular language any rough prickly fhrub Silly There is a man haunt Thy younglings, Cuddy thankfull governmen receive th ance o their king no ye authors of their deliver-s Bra"insickLy. adv Weakly ; headily. [fro Bra'MBLING Why, worthy Thane You do unbend your noble ftrength to thin Shake[peare So brainfickly of things BrA"INSICKNESS Bra1t. z. /i Among jewellers for a roug Dis diamond are but juft awake z /. bird Gay called alf corn ground 5 the refufe of the fieve From me do back receive the flow' of all And leave me but the bran Shakefpeare ‘I'he eitizens were driven to great diftrefs fo want of victuals ; bread they made of the coarfef brany moulded in cloaths 5" for otherwife'it woul not cleave together Hayward In the'fifting of! fourteen years of power an favour, all that came out coul not be pure medl but muft have among it a certain mixture of pada and bran, in this lower age of human fragility Wattap Then water him, and'drinking what he can,_ Encourage himito thirft again' with bran Drydér BRANCH. 'n. /> [ branche, French. i1. The fhoot of a_tree. from,one ofith main boughs. . b Why grow the branches, when the root:is gone Why wither not the leaves that want their fap 7 /. [from brainfick. Indifcretion; giddinefs abufe a mountain chaffinch Disz BRAN, 2. /. [breuna, Ital.] The hulks o Knolles brainfick. tha No thruftles fhrill theramble bufh forfake Nor once dejeét the courage of ‘our minds Becaufe Caflandra's mad; her brainfick rapture th foreft brambles 5 all, forfooth, deifying the name of Rofalind Shakefpeare Shakefpeare Cannot diftafte the goodnefs of a quarrel. SHzk They were brainfick men, who could neithe th our young plants with carving Rafalind on' thei barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies o If .the dull brainlefs. Ajax come fafe off Bra"InPAN. 7. f [from: brain and pan. The {kull containing the brains - The woods can witnefs many a woful ftore. Spenfe have, by great travel an The brainlefs ftripling, who, expell'd the town Damn'd the {#iff college and pedantick gown Aw'd by thy name, is dumb Tickell fo The buth my bed, the bramble was my bow'r labour, brought to pafs, that the church is no athamed of nothing more than of faints. Hooker endur Miller. Content with food which nature freely bred He whips his rapier out, and cries, a rat And, in bis érainifb apprehenfion, kill The unfeen good old man Shake[peare Wee'll drefs him up in voices Redeem arts from their rough and braty feats where they lie hid and overgrown with thorns, to pure; open light, where they may take the eye; and may be taken by the hand +" Ben Fonfort In his lawlefs fit Behind the arras hearing fomething ftir Some brainlefs me o prickly; rough Bra'1Ni1sH. adj. [from brain.] Hotheaded; furious; as cerebrofus in Latin BrAINLESS. adj. [from brain. thoughtlefs; witlefs hem 2. 'The handle of a fhip's pump 3. A baker's kneading trough 4. A fharp bit or fnafle for horfes. Dic A {mith's brake is a machine in whic horfes, unwilling to be fhod, are confined during that operation Bra'ky. adj. [from brake] Thorny Qutlaws of nature feiz'd two wretche inftrament for dreflin flax Why, as I told thee,"tis a cuftom with him i th® afternoon to fleep; there thou may'ft brai him Shake[peare Nex hid, and thunning morta Dryden's Fable 2. It is faid originally to mean fern Hammond in his brain, be fore he be fuch in his hand 3. Sometime on thei flying death, had there conceal'd his flight In brakes and bramble fight derftanding reeved through blocks, which are feize Small rope on either fide the ties, a little off upo the yard; fo that they come down befor little bodies, have yetlarge cranies,and feem' to contain much brain, as fnipes and woodcocks; but Bra'insick. adj. [from-brain and fick. Difeafed in the underftanding : addleheaded; giddy; thoughtlefs [fea term. A dog of this town ufed daily to fetch meat and' to carry the fame unto a blind maftiff, tha ldy in a brake without the town Carew If 'm traduc'd by tongues, which neither kno My faculties nor perfon; let me fay *Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brak might have failed in birds, efpecially fuch as havin With thofe huge bellows in his hands, he blow New fire into my head 5 my brainpan' glows. Dryd z. / 1. A thicket of brambles, or of thorns 1 did, I confefs, fomewhat doubt, and conceived i T'll live and die a maid Shakefpeare Braivrs BRAKE. . /. [of uncertain etymology. Brain'd on the rock, his fecond dire repaft. Pope Dryden Her fhoe difdains the ftrect with fharp words, and &;ake out into this choleric fpeech Knolles If I be ferved fuch another trick, I'll have m brains ta'en out, and. buttered, and give them to dog for a new year's gift Shakefpeare's Merry Wiwves of Windfor That man proportionably hath the largeft brain that of their fate but an imaginary conceive The preterite of break He thought it fufficient to correct the multffud Chefelden heart and brain to breed it in Shakefpeare 7o BraiN. v. a. [from the noun. T 9o BRAID. «. a. [bpadan, Saxon.] T weave together eafily diffociated from the reft larisy alba, or nervea My fon Edgar And bids him make ready Maia's bower. Spenfer Braxe. cefs of the dura marer, under Which the eevebellum is fitbated. The fubftance of the brain is diftinguithed into outer and inner; the former is calle corticalis, cinerea, ov glandulofa; the latter, medul Shakefpeare 2 An membe o par of th whole any diftinét ariicle 3 any, {ection or {ub divifion ( qu |