Eat with him! damn him! to hear him employ his barbarous eloquence in a reading upon the two and thirty good bits in a shoulder of veal; and be forc'd yourself to praise the cold bribe-pye that stinks. Wycherley, Plain-dealer, 1677. BRIBOUR, 8. (4.-N.) (1) A robber. (2) A beggar. BRIBRE, 8. Robbery. BRICCO, adj. Brittle. Chesh. BRICHÉ, adj. Happy. BRICK, (1) v. To break by pulling back. (2) s. A loaf of bread baked in a narrow oblong form, somewhat resembling the proportions of a brick. Warw. (3) s. A rent or flaw. Devon. BRICKEN, (1) adj. Made of brick. South. (2) v. To draw the chin to the neck. BRICKETTES, 8. The pieces of armour which covered the loins, and joined the tassets. BRICK-KEEL, S. A brick-kiln. South. BRICKLE, adj. Brittle. Still used in the North. See those orbs, and how they passe; All's a tender brickle glasse. Tixall Poetry, p. 59. BRICKNOGGIN, s. An old mode of building with frequent wooden right-ups, filled in with bricks. Half-timbered houses are termed brick-pane buildings. BRICKSTONE, BRICK-TILE, } s. A brick. North. BRICK-WALLS. Making brick-walls is a term sometimes applied to swallowing one's meat without chewing. BRICOLE, 8. (4.-N.) A military en- Anoone he ordeynide a vessel afore hir hole, ande put therin everi daye milke, that the serpent withe his briddis myght licke hit oute. Gesta Romanorum, p. 196. BRIDE, (1) 8. (4.-N.) A bridle. (2) v. "Cincischiáre, to mince or bride it at the table or in speech as some affected women use." Florio. BRIDE-LACES, 8. (1) A kind of broad riband or small streamer, often worn at weddings. (2) The ribbon grass (calamagrostis variegata). Northampt. BRIDE-WAIN, 8. A marriage custom in Cumberland. BRIDEWELL. A well-known prison, and often used for a prison or house of correction in general. A bridewell-bird, a rogue. Ergastulus. Servus ergastulo inclusus, qui e vinculis opus facit. Serf enserré. A roge kept in prison and forced to worke: a bridewell bird. Nomenclator. BRIDGE-PIN, 8. Part of a matchlock gun. BRIDGES. (1) Bruges. (2) s. A kind of thread, made probably at Bruges. BRIDLE, S. An ancient instrument for punishing a scold. BRIDLEGGED, ay. Weak in the legs. Chesh. BRIDLE-ROAD, BRIDLE-STY, BRIDLE-WAY, 8. A road for a horse only. BRIDLING, 8. A bitch maris appe. tens. BRIDLING-CAST, s. A parting turn. BRIDRIS, S. Breeders. BRIDWORT, 8. Meadow-sweet. BRIEF, (1) 8. (A.-N.) A petition; any short paper; a letter; an abstract; an account. (2) adj. Common; prevalent. (3) s. A horse-fly, or gad-fly. (4) s. A breve in music. BRIG, S. A utensil used in brewing and in dairies to set the strainer upon; a sort of iron, set over a fire. BRIGANT, 8. (A.-N.) A robber or plunderer. Originally, a soldier who wore a brigandine, which being light armour, these soldiers were the most active plunderers. BRIGANTAILE, s. (A.-N.) A brigandine, a sort of armour composed of small plates of iron sewn upon quilted linen or leather. BRIGE, 8. (A.-N.) Contention. BRIGGE, S. A bridge. North. BRIGGEN, v. .To abridge. BRIGHT, S. Celandine. BRIGHTSOME, adj. Bright. BRIGOSE, adj. (A.-N.) Quarrelsome. BRIK, adj. Narrow; straight. BRIKE, S. (4.-S.) Breach; ruin. BRIM, (1) s. The sea; flood; a river. (2) adj. The same as breme. BRIMBLES, 8. Brambles. Devon. -Yeat that thou doest holde me in disdaine, Is brimme abroad, and many a gybe to all that keepe this plaine. Warner's Albions England, 1592. BRIMMER, 8. A hat. North. I cannot forget (before sashes and broad hats came into fashion) how much I have seen a small puny wit delight in himself, and how horribly he has thought to have abused a divine, only in twisting the ends of his girdle, and asking him the price of his brimmer; but that phansie is not altogether so considerable now, as it has been in former ages. Eachard's Observations, 1671. BRIMMLE, S. A bramble. West. BRIMS, BRIMSEY, }s. A gadfly. Kent. Oestrum, Virg. asilus, Eid. tabanus, Plin. Vesparum genus armentis infes tum. μύωψ, οίστρος, Aristot. Tahon. A gadbee; a breese; a dunflee; a brimsee. Nomenclator, 1585. BRIMSTONE, adj. Rampant. South. BRINCE, BRINCH, BRINDICE, } v. To drink in an swer to a pledge. Luther first brinced to Germany the poisoned cup of his heresies. Harding, in Bishop Jewel's Works. Let us consult at the taverne, where after to the health of Memphio, drinke we to the life of Stellio, I carouse to Prisius, and brinch you mas Sperantus. Lyly, M. Bombie, ii, 1. BRINDED, adj. Fierce. Devon. BRINDLE, S. The state or condition of being brindled. BRINDLED, adj. Streaked; variegated. BRINGEN, v. (A.-S.) To bring. To bring one going, or to bring one on his way, or to bring onward; to accompany a person part of a journey. And she went very lovingly to bring him on his way to horse. Woman killed w. k., O. Pl., vii, 282. Come, mother, sister: you'll bring me onward, brother. BRINI, BRENY, Revenger's Tr., O. Pl., iv, 312. Įs. (4.-S. byrna.) BRUNY, J cuirass. The knyghtis redy on justers, Alle y-armed swithe wel, A Bruny, and launce, and sweord of stel. K. Alisaunder, 1. 1867. BRINK-WARE, S. Small faggots to repair the banks of rivers. East. BRISE, (1) v. To bruise, or break. (2) s. A bristle. North. (3) s. Fallow ground. East. BRISK, v. To enliven one's spirits. BRISK-ALE, S. Ale of a superior quality, West. BRISKEN, v. To be lively. dice. BRISS, S. BRISSLE, V. North. BRISSOUR, 8. A sore place; a chap. BRIST-HIGH, adj. Violent. Yorksh. BRISTLE-TAIL, 8. A gadfly. North. BRISTOW, Bristol. Bristol milk was an old name for sherry. A false diamond was called a Bristol stone, from a kind of soft diamonds which were found in rocks near that town. Dust; rubbish. Devon. To scorch; to dry. Coffee-houses and taverns lie round the Change, just as at London; and the Bristol milk, which is Spanish sherry, no where so good as here, is plentifully drank. Journey thro' England, 1724. Oh! you that should in choosing of your owne, Knowe a true diamond from a Bristow stone. Wit Restor'd, 1658. Brit, v. To bruise; to indent. West. (2) s. A kind of fish. Cornw. BRITAIN-CROWN, s. A gold coin, worth about five shillings. BRITE, v. When hops or corn are over-ripe and shatter, they are said to brite. East and South. BRITH, S. Wrath; contention. BRITONNER, S. A swaggerer. BRITTENE, v. (A.-S.) To carve ; to break, or divide into fragments. BRITTLING, s. The slow-worm. BRIZE, S. A gadfly. This brize has prick'd my patience. B. Jons., Poetaster, iii, 1. I will put the brize in's tail shall set him gadding presently. Vitt. Corom., O. Pl., vi, 251. BRO, 8. A brow; the brink. BROACH, (1) 8. (Fr.) A spit. v. To spit or transfix. 8. A larding-pin. (4) 8. A spur. (5) v. To spur. (6) s. A sharply pointed stick to thrust into mows of corn. (7) v. To deflower. Miege. (9) 8. A rod of willow or hazle (10) An irregular growing of (11) v. To shape stones roughly. (12)s. A fishing-hook. Prompt. P. BROAD, 8. A flooded fen. East. BROAD-ARROW, 8. An arrow with a large head, and forked. BROAD-BAND, S. Corn laid out in the sheaf on the band, after rain, and spread out to dry. North. BROAD-BLOWN, adj. Full-blown. BROAD-CAST, adj. Corn sown by the hand and not drilled. South. BROAD-HEADS, 8. The heads of broad-arrows. BROAD-SET, adj. Short and thick. BROB, v. To prick with a bodkin. BROBILLE, V. To welter. BROCALE, S. Broken victuals. BROCK, (1) 8. (A.-S. broc.) A badger. (2) s. A cabbage. North. (3) s. A piece or fragment. West. (4) 8. (A.-S. broc.) An inferior horse. A horseman was called in Kent a brockman. The word is still used in the North for a cow or husbandry horse. (5) s. The insect which produces the froth called cuckoo-spittle. (6) s. A brocket. BROCKE, v. To brook; to enjoy. BROKE, (1) v. (A.-S. brucan.) To deal, or transact a business, particularly of an amorous nature; to act as a procurer; to be the means of seducing. But we do want a certain necessary Woman, to broke between them, Cupid said. Fansh., Lusiad, ix, 44. "Tis as I tell you, Colax, she's as coy And hath as shrewd a spirit, as quicke conceipt, As ever wench I brok'd in all my life. Daniel, Queen's Arcadia, iii, 3, p. 365. (2) s. A breach. Becon. BROND-IRON, s. A sword. Spenser. (2) Brother. North. A broo- BROOD, v. To cherish. BROODLE, v. To cuddle. North. BROODY, adj. (1) Sullen; ill-tempered. Dorset. (2) Dark and cloudy, spoken of the weather. Northamp. (3) Broody hen, a hen which is sitting on eggs. BROOK, (1) v. Clouds are said to brook up, when they draw together, and threaten rain. South. (2) s. A boil or abscess. (3) s. To digest. Palsgrave. BROOKLIME, 8. Water-speedwell. BROOKMINT, 8. (A.-S.) Watermint. BROOM-DASHER, s. (1) A dealer in faggots, brooms, &c. Kent. (2) A maker of brooms. Leic. BROOM-FIELD, 8. To sweep broomfield, to get possession of the whole of anything. East. BROOMSTAFF, 8. The handle of BROOMSTALE, ƒ a broom. BROSE, v. To bruise. BROSELEY, S. A pipe, so called from a place in Shropshire where pipes were made. BROSEWORT, s. Henbane. Gerard gives this name to the consolida minor. BROSIER, 8. A bankrupt. Chesh. BROSSHING, 8. Gathering sticks or bushes. BROSTEN, part. p. Burst. BROTCHET, 8. A liquor made from the last squeezings of a honeycomb. North. BROTEL, adj. (A.-S.) Brittle; unsteady. BROT-GROUND, 8. Ground newly broken up. Westm. BROTH, S. Pottage. North. To enjoy ; BROUGH-WHAM, s. Adish made of BROUGHTON, I cheese, eggs, clap-bread, and butter, boiled together. Lanc. BROUKE, v. (A.-S.) to use; to possess. BROUSE, S. Brushwood. West. BROUT, S. A bruit, or rumour. BROW, adj. (1) Pert; saucy. North. (2) Brittle. Wilts. BROWDEN, adj. (1) Anxious about. North. (2) Vain; conceited. North. BROWDENE, adj. Broad; tended. ex BROWEN, part. p. Brewed. King's Halfe-Pennyworth of Wit, 1613. BROWING. 8. Soup; pottage. BROWN-CLOCK, 8. The cockchafer. North. BROWN-CROPS, s. Pulse. Glouc. BROWN-DAY, 8. A gloomy day. Wilts. |