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Show A B R BR That bonum iz an animal Made good with ftout polemick braawl. Hudibras BrRA'WLER. 2 /. [from brawl.] A wrangler a quarrelfome, noify fellow An advocate may incur the cenfure of the court for being a brawler in court, on purpofe to lengthe out the caufe Ayliffe BRAWN. . /. [of uncertain etymology. 1. The flethy or mufculous part of th body The érawn of the arm muft appear full, thadowed on one fide; then fhew the wrift-bon thereof Peacham But moft their looks on the black monarch bend His rifing mufcles and his brawn commend His double biting ax, and beamy fpear Each atking a gigantick force to rear. ~ Dryden 2, The arm, fo called for its being mufculous T'll hide my filver beard in a gold beaver And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brazwn Shakefpeare I had purpof Once more to hew thy target from thy drazn Shakefpeare 3. Bulk; mufcular ftrength The boift'rous hands are then of ufe, when T With this dire@ing head, thofe hands apply Brazwn without brain is thine Dryden 4. The flefh of a boar Th beft age for the boar is fro years, at whic two to fiv time it is beft to geld him him for brazn 5 or fel Mortimer A boar Bra'wNER. #. [ [from brawn. killed for the table A boa At Chriftmas time be careful of your fame See the old tenant's table be the fame Then if you would fend up the brawner head Sweet rofemary and bays around it fpread King Bra'wNinEss. z Strength ; hardnefs [ fro brawny. This brawninefs and infenfibility of mind, is th beft armour againft th dents of life Bra'wny commo evils an adj. [from brawn. acciLocke Mufcu lous 5 flethy; bulky ; of great mufcle The brazony fool, who did his vigour boaft In that prefuming confidence was loft "Dryden The native energ "Turns all into the fubftance of the tree, Starves and deftroys the fruit, is only mad For brawvny bulk, and for a barren thade. Dryden Fr. @. a. [bpacan, Sax. draicr To pound, or grind fmall 'l burft him 5 I will bra His bones as in a mortar Chapman Except you would bray Chriftendom in a mortar and mould it into a new pafte, there is no poffibiBacon lity ofa holy war Bray w. n. [broire, Fr. barrio, Lat. 7. To make a noife as an afs ¢ Laugh, and the Return it louder than an afs can bray Dryde 'Agad if hz fhould hear the lion roar, he' cudgel him into an afs, and to his primitive braying 2 T Congreve mak an offenfive reeable noife harfh, or difa What, fhall our feaft be kept with flaughter' men Shall braying trumpets, and loud churlifh drums Clamours of hell, be meafures to our pomp ? Shak Arms on armour clathing, bray' Horrible difcord Brav. #. /. [from the verb. 1. Voice of an afs 2. Harfh found Milton . The violation of a law or contrag Boift'rous untun'd drums a b u d e d t p u t n d u f r t h A Shakefpeare BRA'YER. 7. /. [from bray. That oath would fure contain them great the breach of it bring them to fhorter verigeance, " { fi t n o l t o e c ‘What are thofe bre 1. One that brays like an afs wi Equal your merits, equal is your din Go While the dread danger does behind remain Difference kindnefs 6 It woul an Shakefpeare BRAZENFACED. adj. [from brazenface. Impudent ; fhamelefs What a brazenfaced varlet art thou, to den thou knoweft me ? Is it two days ago, fince I trip up thy heels, and beat thee before the king Shakefpeare Quick-witted, brazenfac'd, with fluent tongues Patient of labours, and diffembling wrongs. Dryd Bra"zENNESs. n. /. [from brazen. 1. Appearance like brafs Bread, that decaying man with ftrength fupplies And generous wine, which thoughtful forrow flies Pope 2. Food in general, fuch as nature requires : to ger bread, implies, to ge {ufficient for fupport without luxury In the fweat of thy face fhalt thou eat bread Genefis If pretenders weére not fupported by the fimplicity of the inquifitive fools, the trade would no This dowager, on whom my tale I found A fimple fober life in patience led And had but juft enough to buy her bread. Dryd When I fubmit to fuch indignities Make me a citizen, a fenator of Rome I neithe hav been bre a fcholar, a foldier nor to any kind of bufinefs ; this creates uneafinef in my mind, fearing I fhall in time want bread Speélator 3. Support of life at large God is pleafed to-try our patience by the in King Charles ‘What then ? is the reward of virtue bread 2 Pope See BRaSIER This tempef Dathing the garment of this peace, abode Shake[peare clean.sh data import.tsv out README The fudden breach on't BREAD-CHIPPER. 7. /i [from bread an chip. Cure this great éréach in his abufed nature. Shak by battery The wall was blown up in two places 3 by whic the Turks feeking to have entered, mad Kinolles bloody fight Till niad with rage upon the breach he fir'd BreaD-cORN 7. / [from bread and corn. Corn of which bread is made the bread, and bread-corn, fufficed not for fi Hayward days When it is ripe, they gather it, and, bruifin it among bread corn, they put it up into a vefle and keep it as food for their flaves BreaDp-rOOM 7 Broamg [In a fhip. A par of the hold feparated by a bulk-he?. from the reft, where the bread and bif Slew friends and foes, and in the fimoke retir'd Dryden No abufe, Hal, on my honour ; no abufe. Not to difpraife me, and call me pantlery an bread-chipper, and 1 know not what? Shakefpeare There was not one drop of beer in the town O you kind gods in a fortification mad One that chips bread; a baker' fervant ; an under butler 2. The ftate of being broken breac But fometimes virtue ftarves, while vice is fed BrEaCH. n. /. [from break 5 breche, Fr. 1. The a& of breaking any thing 3. A ga To fell my country, with my voice, for breads Philipss have lift up themfelves againft us The halfpence and farthings in England, if yo thould fell them to the brazier, you would not lof Savift above a penny in a fhilling L' Eftrange find- them 4read gratitude of thofe who, having eaten of our bread, 2. Impudence Bra"z1ER. 7 / into 4read, the lighteft and propereft aliment fo human bodies Arbuthnot hold it out Clarendon Mankind have found the means to make grai 'To be impudent; t You do, if you fufpeét me in any dithonefty. breach upon kingly power was withou 1. Food made of ground corn Make mingle with your rattling tabourines. Shak Bra"zENFACE. 7 /. [from brazen an Jface.] An impudent wench : in lo language BREAD. 7. /. [bneob, Saxon: Arbuthnot Clarendon precedent 2. Proceeding from brafs : a poetical ufe had done nothing amifs the armies would have beep 7. Infraltion ; injury an When I reprimanded him for his tricks, h would talk faucily, lye, and brazen it out, as if h fi:paratiog o have been long before the jealoufie breaches betwee Thi Spenfer quarrel compofed. His heavier arms lay fcatter'd on the plain. Dryd bully boatman. fir'ong,ly forth di That th' utmoft fandy breach they thortly fgfleh, Peachas a fine ruler, for taking the diftance A bough his razen helmet did fuftain w.z & His brawny arms,. and all his body ftrai Bra"zEN. adj. [from brafs. It.was anciently an 1. Made of brafs properly written brajen 7o Bra"zeN th'> heedfu frretc Shak Trumpeters With brazen din blaft you the city's ear to the breach of thofe laws, the only gua; d Bu I have fo often blufhed to acknowledge him that now I am braz'd to it. Shakefp. King Lear Get alfo a fmall pair of brazen compafies penalties affixe th 5. The opening in a coaft That it is proof and bulwark againt fenfe that can effeCtually reftrain men within the tfue bounds of decency and virtue S Rogers abfolutely neceffary, becaufe that worm is firf turned up, and bowed into the grooves of the fpindle; and you may try that before it is brazed i Moxon the nut If damned cuftom hath not éraz'd it {o of morality 5 an rule € ; from 70 éray, or beat. to temper the ink [from brafs. brafs z. To harden to impudence m{ The laws of the gofpel are the only ftang brazed into it, this nicenefs is. not f 3. Impudent towards our neighbour involves in it a breach of duty towards God, S"aut:b onl bu brafs i caf b t no b nu If th hath a wor do forfeit all right in fl'nafiofil: Bfl:o Breach of dut But, that this well-difputed game may f:nd n r i l w t a e a é m h r Sound f 2. [With printer An inftrumen To BRAZE. w. a 1. To folder wit whic nations govern a cat-call each fh Hold ! cried the queen Well faid, brazenface and ftrength 7o BRAY BR cuit for the men are kept o BREADTE: |