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Show B L A dire indu@ion am I witnefs ¢o And will to France, hoping the confequene Wil prove as bitter, black, and tragical. Shakefp 6. Black and blue a ftripe 'The colour of a bruife Miftrefs Ford, good heart, is beaten black an ¢lue that you cannot fee a white fpot .about her Shakefpeare's. Merry Wives of Windlor And, wing'd with fpeed and fury, fle To refcue knight from black and blue Hudibras Brack-BrOwWED. adj. [from &lack an brow.] Having black eyebrows; gloo. my ; difmal ; threatening Come, gentle night; come, loving, lack-brow' night Give me my Romeo Shakefpeare Thus when a black-brow'd guft begins to rife ‘White foam at firft on the curl'd ocean fries ‘Lhen roars the main, the billows mount the fkies Dryden Brack-BRYONY. 7. [/ [tamnus, Lat.] Th name of a plant Brack-caTriE . /. Oxen bulls an COWS The other part of the grazier's bufinefs is wha we call .black-cartles produces hides, tallow, an beef, for exportation Saift Brack-earRTH obviou o BL BL 2 /. It is every wher the furfac of th ground 7o BLACK, w. a, [from the noun. T make black; to blacken . Blacking over the paper with ink, not only th ink woul be quickl drie up but the paper that T could not burn before, we quickly fet o fire Boyle Then in his fury black'd the raven o'et And bid him prate in his white plumes no more Bra'ckamoor #. [fro Addifon &lack an Moor.] A man by nature of 2 black com plexion; a negro They are no more afraid of a blackamore, O . lion, than of a nurfe or a cat ‘BrLa'ckBERRIE Locke Heath, [empetrum, Lat. The name of a plant bramble The policy of thefe crafty fneering rafcals, tha ftale old moufe-eaten cheefe Neftor, and that fam dog-fox Ulyfles, is not proved worth a blackberry Shakefpeare Then fad he fung the Children in the Woed How blackberries they pluck'd in defarts wild And fearlefs at the glittering faulchion fmil'd. Gay Woodward guard.] A cant word amongft the vular; by which is implied a dirty fel{gow; of the meaneft kind Of finging birds, they have linnets finches, blackpirds, thruthes, and divers others Carcav A f{choolboy ran unto't, and though Brack-cuarp Le houfe adj {fro a black-guard boy be alway blac an abou th to fend on your errands, and go to marke for you .on rainy days Swift Brack-mA1IL. z. . A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other confideration paid to men allied with robbers, to b by them protetted from the danger o {uch as ufually rob or fteal Cowell Bracx-pUuDDING . / [from black an pudding.'| A kind of food made of bloo and grain Through they were lin'd with many a piec ©Of ammunitio. bread and cheefe And fat black-puddings, proper foo For warriours that delight in blood Hudibras Brack-rop. 7. /i [from black and rod. The ufher belonging to the order of th garter; fo called from the b/ack rod h carries in his hand. He is of the king' chamber,-and likewife ufher of the parliament Bracxk. n /. [from the adje@ive. I A black colour Cowell Black is the badge of hell The hue of dungeons, and the fcowl of night. Shak For the produétion of black, the corpufcles muf be lefs than apy of thofe which exhibit colours Neavton. 2 Mourning Rife, wretched widow, rife; nor, undeplor'd Permit my ghoft to pafs the Stygian ford But rife, prepar'd in black to mourn thy perith' lord Dryden. 3.- A blackamoor 4. That part of the eye which is black It {uffices that it be in every part of the air which is as big as the black or fight of the eye % More fiery by night's backneh S f 3. Atrociouinefs; h°¥rib1¢nefi e wicked nefs BLA CKSMITH. n. / th. ['fromv black a Sm A {mith that works in iroq. "; called from being very fmutty The blackfmith may forge what be pleafes Hml[ Shut up thy doors with bars &nd boltgs it wil be impoflible for the blackfmirh to make'them;‘ faft, but a cat and a whoremafter will fing awao SPEHarp through them Bra'ckTATL, 7. / [from Black and 14i A fifh ; a kind of perch, by f c lle ruffs, or pope Bra'ppER. 7 /. [blabope, Saxon; 44 Datch. 1. That veflel in the body which contgi the urine The bladder {hould be made of 2 membranoy fubftance, and extremely dilatable, for receivin an containin emptying i the urine tll an opportunty o < Ray 2. It 15 often filled with wind, to whic all fio ar fre uen l mad gold- Tlat huge great bod The crib was down, the blackbird caught Swifr 7o BLa"ckEN. @, 2. [from black. 1. To make of a black colour appeared at firft to Elijah' fervant no bigger than a man's hand, but prefentl after grew, and fpread, and dlackened the face o the whole heaven 3. To defame South or make infamous Let us blacken him what we can, faid that mifcreant Harrifon ef the bleffed king, upon the wording and drawing up his charge againft his approaching trial South. The morals blacken'd, when the writings *{cape The libell'd perfon, and the piGur'd fhape. Pope 70 BLA"CKEN dark w. 2 To grow black, o The hollow foun Sung in the leaves, the foreft thook around Ai blacken'd ground roll' th thunder groan' th Dryden Bra"ckisu. adj. [from black.] Somewha black Part of it all the year continues in the form of blackifp oil Boyle BrLa'cxmMoor. 7. /. [from dlack and Moor. A negro - The land of Chus makes no part of Africa nor is it the habitation of blackmoors; but th country of Arabia, efpecially the Happy and Stony Brown's Vulgar Errours More to wef The realm of Bacchus to the dlackmoor fea. Milion Bra'cknEess. z. / 1. Black colour [from black. emerg one or more ver blac fpots, and, within'thofe, other fpots of an intenfe blacknefs Neavton His tongue, his prating tongue, had chang'd hi quit To footy blacknefs from the pureft white. Addifon 6 Was nothing left, but like an empty bladder was Speter A bladder but moderately filled with air, an néar the fire, grew ex ceeding turgid and hard ;' but being brought neare to the fire, it fuddenly broke, with fo louda noif as made us for a while after almoft deaf Boyl 3. It is ufua fo thofe that learn t {wim, te fupport themfelves with bloy bladders I have ventur'd Like little wanton boys that fwim on bladders Thefe many fummers in a fea of glory But far beyond my depth : my highblown pride At length broke under me Shakefpeare 4. A blifter; a puftule BLapper-wur Lat. #. [faphylodendron A plant BLADDER-SENA. 7 /. [colutea, Lat.] Th name of a plant BLADE. . /, [blzb, bleb, Sax. b Fr.] The fpire of grafs before it grow to feed ; the green fhoots of corn whic rife from the feed. This feems to m the primitive fignification of the wor blade ; from which, I believe, the bla of a {word was firft named, becaufe o its fimilitude in fhape; and, from th blade of a fword, that of other weapon or tools There is hardl found a plant that yieklethv‘ red juice in the blade or ear, except it be the tre - Bacar that beareth [anguis draconis Send in the feeding flocks betimes, t' invad The rifing bulk of the luxuriant blade. Dryder If we were able to dive into her fecret receiits we fhould find that the fmalleft blade of grafs, o moft contemptible weed, has its particular uf';:)i Blacknefs is only a difpofition to abforb, or ftifle without refle€tion, moft of the rays of every for that fail on the bodies Locke There woul which the giant bor Was vanquifh'd quite, and of that monfirous maf ftrongly tied, being hel Blefs'd by afpiring winds, he finds the firan Brack-LEAD. #. [ [from black ahd lead. Blacken'd by crowds Prior A mineral found in the lead-mines Whi th lon fun'rals blacken all the way. Pope much ufed for pencils ; it is not fufible,2 T dar en t clo d or not without a very great heat That little cloud tha You muft firft get your Alack-lead fharpene finely, and put faft into quills, for your rude an firft draught Peacham His favlts in him feem as tfle fpots &f See Pore Di BLa CKBERRY Bup. n. f. [rubus, Lat.] Bra'ckTHOR 7. /i [from Haté'an( A {pecies of bramble thorn. 'The fame with the flge, Se Bra"ckBERRY. 2 /i The fruit of th Pruwm, of which it is a {pecies Bra'ckBrirD. n. /. [from black and &ird. The name of a bird and what we call mould 2. Dartknefs Hung on every fpray, on every blad inkle round Of grafs the myria dewdrops twinkl Thani BrapE. 2. /£ [élatte, Germ. blad, Dutch. 1. The fharp or ftriking part of 3 wegglo or inftrument, diftinét from the han C‘- It is ufually taken for a weapon, an f called probably from the 1 ene;sf;ot |