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Show BR BR 1 ran it through, e'en from my boyi/b days To th' very moment that he bade me tellit Shak 2, Childifh ; trifling This unhair'd faucinefs, and doyifb troops The king doth fmile at, and is well prepar' ‘To whip this dwarfith war, thefe pigmy arms Shakefpeare Young men take up fome Englith poet for thei model, and imitate him, without knowing wherei clean.sh data import.tsv out README he is dgfective, where he is boyifb and trifling Dryden Bo'visHLY. adv. [from boyi/p.] Childifh ly; triflingly Bo visuness. #. /. [from boyifb.] Childithnefs ; trifling manner Bo'vism. =z /i [from &op.] 'Puerility childithnefs He had complained he was farther off, by bein fo near, and a thoufand fuch bayifms, which Chauce Dryden rejected as below the fubjeé RBr. An abbreviation of bithop #. BRA'BBLE [brabbelen, Dutch. Here in the ftreets, defperate in thame and ftate Shak In private brabble did we apptehend him %o Bra'BELE. v, 7 [from the noun.]. T clamour ; to conteit noifily 9. Tenfion; tightnefs Mix'd them with falt, and feafon'd a]] the The moft frequent caufe of deafnefs is the laxnefs of the tympanum, when it has loft its brac Holder ot tenfion What other caufe could this effec produce The brackifb tin€ture through the main diffyfes Brack. #. /. [of uncertdin etymology probably derived from rao braced together. ce br no i I l u c i p 1. BRA'CKISHNESS Al BRAD A cla Dryden's Fables 2. It is ufed generally in converfation a a {port{fman's word penn quarrel{fome, noify fellow 3. It is applied to men in contempt I here could pluck his highnefs' frown upon you Shake[peare t Fo BRACE. @. a. [embraffer, Fr. 3 To bind ; to tie clofe with bandages " The women of China, by bracing and bindin them from their infancy, have very little feet Locke 2. To intend ; to make tenfe; to firain up 2. A piece of defenfiv arm armcu 1. T ‘The diminution of the force of the preffure o the external air, in bracing the fibres, sauft creat 1. Cinture bandage 2. That which holds any thing tight The little bones of the ear-drum do in ftrainin and relaxing it, as the braces of the war-drum d Derbam in that Bra"ceRr. 7. f [from brace. 1. A cidure; a bandage 3. Brac [in architeCture] is a piece o timber framed in with bevil joints, ufe to keep the building from fwervin either way Builder's Dicz 4. Braces. [a{fea term.] Ropes belonging to all the yards, except the mizen They have a pendant to the yard-arm two braces to each yard; and, at th end of the pendant a bloc is feized through which the rope called the 4rac is reeved The braces ferve to {quar and traverfe the yards Sea Dié& t. Bracges of a Coach. Thick firaps o leather on which it hangs 6. Harnefs 7. Brace. [In printing.] A crooked lin inclofing a paflage, which ought to b taken together, and not feparately ; a in a triplet Charge Venus to command her {on ‘Wherever elfe {he lets him rove ‘To thun my houfe, and field, and grove; Peace cannot dwell with hate or love Prior 8., Warlike preparation ; from éracing th armour3 as we {ay, girded for the battle As it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes So may he with more facile queftion bear it For that it ftands not in fuch warlike drace But altogether lacks th® abilitie "That Rhodes is drefs'd in Shakefpeare 7. J [Beayvs within the compafs of a penny Brack. #. /. [from break. broken part that bragged they had' an infallible ointment Arbuthot 2. It has of before the thing boafted Knowledge being the only thing wbereof w poor old men can brag, we cannot make it knov + Sidney but by utterance Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth, Ska Hayward defelts Let them compare my work with what is taugh in the fchools, and if they find in theirs many brack and fhort ends, which cannot be {fpun into an eve piece; and, in mine, a fair coherence throughout Digby I fhall promife myfelf an acquiefcence Bra'ckeT. 7 /. [a term of carpentry. A piece of wood fixed for the fupport o fomething Let your fhelves be laid upon brackets, being abou two feet wide, and edged with a {fmall lath Mortimer Dutch.] Salt ; fomewhat falt : it isufed particularly o the water of the fea Pits upo the fea fhore turn into freth water by percolation of the falt through the fand: bu it is farther noted, after a time, the water'in fuc Bacon its will become brackifb again ‘When I had gain'd the brow and top " A lake of brackifh waters on the groun Was all T found Herbert And taking fanéuary in the crowd i The place was but weak, and the bracks fair but the defendants, by refolution, fupplied all th BRA'CKISH. adj. [brack Every bufy little feribbler no Swells with the praifes which he gives himfelf Brags of his impudence, and fcorns to mend Rofconmon Glanwville A breach Sanderfo Clarendon over and make this the feat of war Mrs. Bull's condition was looked upon as defperate by all the men of art; but there were thofe fhort brachygraphy had confine The rebels were grown {o ftrong there, that the All the certainty of thofe high pretenders, batin what they have of the firft principles, and the wor of God, may be circumfcribed by as fmall a circl Shakefpeare of England The art o and yea@w, to write. pra&ice of writing in a fhort compafs whe to difplay oftentationfly intended then, as they already bragged, to com Bra‘cH1AL. adj. [from brachium, an arm Lat.] Belonging to the arm as the creed boaft In bragging out fome of their private tenets, a if they were the eftablifhed doétrine of the churc Wileman BRACHY GRAPHY w. n. [braggeren, Dutch. lies Truth's a dog muft to kennel; he muft. b whipped out, when the lady brach may ftand b Shakefpeare the fire, and ftink Bracke: #: /. [from the verb. Mfl;‘fll Moor, but for bragging, and telling her fantaftica a debilify in mufcular motion. = Arbuthnot on Air tha have 'not their head And wilt not come Shakefpeare Mark me, with what violence fhe firft loved th for th 2. A medicine of confiringent power BracH. #. /i [braque, Fr.] A bitch hound is not capable of tenfio nail, bu Thou coward ! art thou bragging to the ftars Telling the bufhes that thou look'ft for wars in ring Boyle way, in fuch a manner as a drum is braced. Holder tympanu from the Saxon bpad, and.tfi to tell boaftful ftories When they affect the bélly, they may be reftrained by a bracer, without much trouble Th Cb{?'l 70 BRAG Ben Fonfon A very ingenious lady ufed to wear and'bracelets, ftore of thofe gems leive: made with a fhoulder over their fhank as other nails, but are made pretty thic towards the upper end, that the very to may be driven into, and buried in, th board they nail down ; fo that the top of thefe brads will not catch the thrup of the mops, when the floor is wathing He is faid, this fummer, to have thot with hi Addifon own hands fifty brace of pheafants Bracelets of the fairy twifts hithert Gibfon Gothick éraid Brap. n. /. A fort of nail to floor room with. They are about the fize of 3 fep Ten brace and more of greyhounds, fnowy fair And tall as ftags, ran loofe, and cours'd aroun Tie about our tawny wrift ftraining being an initial, fignifies bres Jpacious Goodlieft of all the foreft, hartand hind, Par. Loff Both his hands were cut off, being know have worn bracelets of gold about his wrifts artificia animal ufes Down from a hill the beafts that reign in woods Firft hunter then, purfued a gentle érace BraA'CELET. n. fo: [braceles, French, i. An ornament for the arms #. [ [From;héééi%"i brackifbnefs in falt water, that makes it unfit fo but brace, in the plural his chair th oo Blac Saltnefs in a fmall degree. Sir F. Hayward BrA'BBLER. z /. [from brabble. The wife contriver, on his end ffim'm: But you, my brace of lords, were I fo minded clamorous conteft; a fquabble ; a broil morous BR 3. O is ufed, but improperly Yet lo in me what authors have to brag o Fope Reduc'd at laft to hifs in my own dragon Brag. # /. [from the verb. 1 A boaft a proud expreflion A kind of conque. Cefar made here ; but made not here his bra Sba;%ff['"'" Of came, and faw, and overcames It was fuch a new thing for the Spanjardst receive fo little hurt, upon dealing with the Englifh as Avellaneda made great brags of it, for no greate matter than the waiting upon the Englifh afar ofi Baco 2. The thing boafted Beauty is nature's brag, and mufbte fhew In courts, at feafts, and high folemnities Where moft may wonder # [fro i f' brag. - puffing, fwelling, boafting fellow The world abounds in terrible fanfarons, a":i acx:s fqu m are eafy to be deteted L rar;) By the plot, youmay guefs much of t_he: racters of the perfons; a braggadocio captaith dl:: rafite, and a lady of pleafure Bra'GGARDIIM |