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Show --- Than temporal death fhall brife the victor's heel They beat their breafts with many a bruifing blow Till they turn livid, and corrupt the fnow Bruise. #. /. [from the verb. Dryd 3. A rude affaplt A hur with fomething blunt and heavy Shakefpeare -were a little browner From whence high Ithaca o'erlooks the floods Brown with o'ercharging fhades and penden Pope woods Long untravell'd heaths To bind the druifes of a civil war And ftop the iflues of their wafting blood Dryd a thock; rough treat ment ; which, by the fame metaphor we call a feouring One arm'd with metal, th' other with wood This fit for bruife, and that for blood Hudibras I fince have labour' 1 like the new tire within excellently, if the hai Mixon upon the joint of each picce Let grow thy finews till their knots be ftrong Shak And tempt not yet the brufles of the war It could not be poffible, that, upon fo little brufp as Waller had fuftained, he could not be abl Clarendon Hudibras to follow and difturb the king Elfe, when we put it to the pufh They had not giv'n us fuch 2 brufb Bru1sEWORT. 7./. An herb; the fam wit CO FR Y n mf Th te wa de wa h zv ti 4r ol ‘With de BR IT f ou [bru t Ru Fr. l. b: an av br r L [ / B W Bro 70 BRusH. v. a. [from the noun. noife ; report The ancient weapon of the Englifh foot 1. To fweep or rub with a brufh A bruit ran from one to the other, that the kin why it is calle &rown, I have not dif Upon fome bruits he apprehended a fear, whic moved him to fend to Sir William Herbert to remain his friend Hayaward And brozwnbills, levied in the city Made bills to pafs the grand committee. Hudibras I am no Some Bro'wNisH. adj. [from brown. what brown A brognifb grey iron-ftone, lying in thin ftrata Woodward " is poor, but runs freely Bro'wn NESs. 7./. [from brown.] Abrow colour She would confefs the contention in her ow One that rejoices in the common wreck As common bruit doth put it Shakefpeare 7o BruiT. @. a. [from the noun.] T report ; to noife abroad ; to rumour Neither the verb nor the noun are no much in ufe They live retired, and then they doze away thei time in drowfinefs and brownfludies; or, if brif and altive, they lay themfelves out wholly i Norris " making common places BROWSE. «. a. [5rou_/ér eat branches, or fhrubs B Being bruited once, took fire and heat awa From the beft temper'd courage in his troops It was bruited, that I meapt nothing lefs than t Of cattle, and broufed, and forely hurt river or brook They have fcared away two of my beft fheep ‘if any where I have them, 'tis by the fea-fide Shake[peare browfing on ivy A goat, hard prefled, took fan&uary in a vineyard; fo foon.as he thought the danger over, h fell prefently a browfing upon the leaves, L'Efirange You BrU'NT Gnaw pendent ‘I 9% BRUISE. . a. [brifer, Fr.] T . or mangle with the heavy blow o -thing not edged or pointed; t by any weight ; to beat into grof . der; to beat together coarfely Philips crat fomecruf pow Fellows in arms, and my moft loving friends Bruis'd underncath the yoke of tyranny Yor I Shakefp though of thi #. fi [brunf?, Dutch, TTE'UOZ{X From the dry ground to fpring, thy thirft © alla After the brunt of battle Miiton Faithful minifters are to ftand and endure th brunt: a common foldier may fly, when it is th duty of him that holds the ftandard to die upo the place Soutb . Blow; ftroke A wicked ambufh, which lay hidden lon In the clofe covert of her guileful eyen Thence breaking forth, did thick about me throng Too feeble I t* abide the brunt {0 ftrong. Spenfer The friendly rug preferv'd the ground And headlong knight, from bruife or wound Like featherbed betwixt a wall And heavy drunt of cannon-ball Hudibras BRUSH. #. /. [brofe, Fr. from &rufeus at. 1. An inftrument to clean any thing, b rubbing off the dirt or {oil. Itis gene- rally made of briftles fet in weood 9 Dryden And near the fhip came thund'ring on the flood 1t almoft brufb'd the helm Pope 3. To paint with a brufh You have commiffioned me to paint your fhop and I have done my beft to bru/b you up like you Pope 4. To carry away, by an ac like that o bruthing ; to {fweep And from the boughs fru/b off the evil dew And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew Milton The receptacle of waters, into which th mouths of all rivers muft empty themfelves, ough to hav fo fpacious a furface, that as much wate may be continually érufbed off by the winds, an exhaled by the fun, as, befides what falls again, i brought into it by all the rivers Bentley 5. To move as the brufh thoufand night wing have érufp'd their balm Dryder eyes . 7 1. To move with hafte applied to men Erona chofe rather to bide the brunt of war than venture him Sidney God, who caus'd a fountain, at thy pray'r - Aftonifh'd, how the goats their fhrubby broruf 1. Shock ; violence fit for the food of goats, o « Plinlimmon, from afar, the traveller kens therefor His fon Cupavo br;:/b'd the briny flood Bru'Ni1oN. #. f. [brugnon, Fr.] A fort o Over thef fruit between a plum and a peach 70 BRUSH Browsk. #./. [from the verb.] Branches The greedy lionefs the wolf purfues Thewolf the kid, the wanton kid the browfe. Dryd On that cloud-piercing hill fair wome The wrathful bea& about him turned light And him o rudely paffing by, did bru/ With his long tail, that horfe and man to groun did rufh Spenfer's Fairy Queen Has Somnus 4rufb'd thy eyelids with his rod Dryden Addifon Broawfe on the fhrubs, and crop the budding trees Blackmore The Greeks were the defcendants of favages ignorant of agriculture, and brotwfing on herbage Arbuthnot like cattle other animals # [ [brunette, French. fathion, to infult the olives and the drumettes Could eat the tender plant, and, by degrees or fhrubs Gibjon. woman with a brown complexion Shakefpeare ing neighbours boupin, bpunna, bunna; all fignifying BrunE'rT ZoBrowsE. v. z. To feed: it is ufed wit the particle oz Belong Brun, BRan, BRown, Bourn, Burn are all derived from the Saxon, bonn Yea, like the ftag, when fnow the pafture theets The barks of trees thou broufedft Raleigh About the brumal {olftice, it hath been obferved, even unto a proverb, that the fea is calm, an the winds do ceafe, till the young ones are excluded, and forfake their nefts Brown Spenfer Thy palate then did deig The rougheft berry on the rudeft hedge Bru'maL. adj. [brumalis, Lat. ing to the winter And being down, is trod in the dur as in brufh High o'cr the billows flew the mafly load Shake/peare go to Guiana 'To ftrike with quicknefs 2 Upon his ftern a brawny centaur ftood His death mind, between that lovely, indeed moft lovely brownnefs of Mufidorus's face, and this colour o Sidney mine Bro'wNsTUDY. 7. /. [from &rown an Gloomy meditations ; fludy i JSudy. which we dire& our thoughts to no cer tain point Sidney was flain covered; but we now fay brown mufke from it If he be not in love with fome woman, there i no believing old figns: he brufbes his hat o' morning 5 what thould that bode Shakefpeare Brown, in high Dutch, is called braun; in th Netherlands, brayun5 in French, coleur brune 5 i Peacham Jtalian, bruno Waller W ERCE any other colour Stilling fleet With a fmall br#/p you rauft fmear the glue wel -t ie BROWN. adj. [bnun, Saxon.] The nam of a colour, compounded of black an Whence comes all this rage of wit? this armin all the pencils and rzfbes of the town againft me Suckling May alfer nature in our browfick crew Or theirs whom he redeems Miiton As in old chaos heav''n with earth cenfus'd And ftars with rocks together crufh'd and 4ruis'd Dejected; hanging the head But yet a gracious influence from yo 2. It is ufed for the larger and ftronge pencils ufed by painters And fx far deeper in his head their ftings S adj. [from drow and fick. BR. N Bro'wsick Bi R B'R 2 Indicrous word Nor wgpt his fate, nor caft a pitying eye Nor took him down, but brufp'd regardlefs by Drydes The French had gather'd all their force And William met them in-their way Yet off they bru/b'd, both foot and horfe 2. To fly over Prior to fkim lightly Nor love is always of a vicious kind But oft to virtuous aéts inflames the mind Awakes the fleepy vigour of the foul And, brufbing o'er, adds motion tothe pool. Dryd Bru'suer. n /i [from éruh. ufes a brafh He tha Sir Henry Wotton ufed to fay, that criticks wer like brufbers of noblemen's cloaths Bacou Brvu sawoob. . /. [from brafs and weod I know not whether it may not be corrapted from droav/e-awood.] Rough, low clofe, thrubby thickets; fmall wood fi for fire It fmokes, and then with trembling breath fh blows Till in 2 cheerful blaze the flames arofe Wit |