Wherewith he set his souldiers on suche a courage, that taking more thought for their burial the for their lives, euery manne put aboute his righte arme a bracelet wherein was grauen his owne name, and the name of his father. Goldyng. Justine, fol. 24. BRACH. Dut. Brack; Fr. Braque; It. Bracco. Cotgrave says, that the Fr. Braque is a kind of short-tailed setting-dog, ordinarily spotted or party coloured. The Scotch Rach (see Jamieson); Eng. Brach; are applied to a hound, canis venaticus; to a dog that scents out, or traces out by the scent; perhaps rach and brach are race, be-ræcc, bracc, from the A. S. Race, from Recan, to reek, to send forth a fume or scent; Ger. Riechen, be-riechen, to scent out, to trace by the scent or odour. (Odorem spirare et odorem percipere, Wachter.) Rach also occurs in the old romance of Lybeaus Dis CORALR Mr. Steevens quotes the following passage from Sir Thomas More's Comfort against Tribulation, b. iii. c. 24: Here it must be known of some men that can skill of hunting, whether that we mistake not our terms, for then are we utterly ashamed as ye wott well.-And I am so cunning, that I can not tell, whether among them a bitche be a bitche or no; but I remember she is no bitch but a brache. For as the dogs pursue the silly doe, Beaum. & Fletch. The Scornful Lady, Act i. sc. 1. Lye still ye theefe, and heare the lady sing in Welsh. As they ryde talkynge They ne sawe honde never so gay. Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 594. BRACHY'GRAPHY. write. Writing in a short or small space: an abbreviate or epitome: also by "short marks," now called short hand. Look upon all the sad moneful objects in the world, be- It may be all the certainty of those high pretenders to it [science] may be circumscrib'd by as small a circle as the creed, when brachygraphy had confined it within the compass of a penny.-Glanvill. Van. of Dog. c. 2. He beheld himself, and sermon-writer; and did not know which most to wonder at, his own deafness, or the fellow's acuteness. At last he asked the brachygrapher, whether he wrote the notes of that sermon, or something of his own conception.-Gayton. Notes on Don Quixote, vol. i. p. 8. BRACK. A breach, any thing broken; A. S. Let not a brack i'th' stuff, or here and there Called I was William De la Poole, BRAG, v. Of Suffolke Duke in Queene Margarets daies, Beaum. & Fletch. A Wife for a Month, Act i. sc. 1. Fragor; qui (sc.) fragorem magnum edit. Id. Valentinian. Epilogue. A cord that would not slip Made serue the turn-Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xvii. BRACK, n. 'Tis but my closer preasing to the fire But when I wake and finde away that makes my limmes to quake, Turberville. The Louer to his Careful Bed, &c. Some are in a secret discontent at God's afflicting providence; and this raiseth the memory of former mercies, and takes away the relish of present mercies; as the sweet showers of heaven that fall into the sea are turned into its brackish taste: such neither enjoy God nor themselves. Bates. The great Duty of Resignation. A great number of them rebelling against Spartacus, went and camped themselves by the Lake of Lucania, which water by report hath this variable property, that at certain times it changeth and becometh very sweet, and at some other times again so salt and brackish as no man can drink it. North. Plutarch, p. 471. But the souldiers were driven to take sea weeds called Alga: (washing away the brackishness thereof with fresh water, putting to it a little herb called Dogs-tooth) to cast it so to their horse to eat.-Id. Ib. p. 610. BRACKET. A bracket or brace in Printing, is a certain mark bracing or confining words or lines together. BRA'CKISHNESS. would derive it from the noisy threats, or boastings; in clamorous preten BRA'CKY. Dut. Braecken, vomere (prorumpere in Vomitum, Brackish, impregnated with, tasting of, salt. And, what the famous flood far more than that enriches, Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 11. All the nobles of the Frenche courte were in garmentes of many colours, so that they were not knowen from the braygery.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 12. The French King did not only contempne his prowd wordes, and laughed at his manacyng and bolde bragging, but soberly aunswered, that without enfringyng of any league or treatie he lawfully might and woulde helpe his frendes.-Id. Edw. IV. an. 9. BRAID, v. A. S. Bræg-an, ge-brægan, diBRAID, n. ripere, eximere, stringere, to tear, BRAID, adj. or drag out, or away. Bray, Greneway. Tacitvs. Annales, p. 58. brayed, braid: (See ABRAID and BRAY,) applied to any frequent or sudden and violent action or motion. The adjective, used by Shakespeare, seems to denote, sudden and violent. To break, pull, drag, rend, or tear ;-to start, leap or spring to make an irruption, or eruption, or sally, assault, onset, insurrection, revolt. See Dr. Jamieson in v. Brade, who assigns (unnecessarily) various etymologies for various applications of the same word. Mr. Tooke thinks that Braide, quoted below from Shakespeare, has the same meaning that it has in Proverbs; “Diana (he remarks) does not confine herself to his craft or deceit; but includes also all the other bad qualities of which she supposes Bertram to be compounded; and which would not depart from him, though bray'd in a mortar." Such an interpretation is scarcely intelligible. Diana has previously said, None bewail more braggingly Germanicus death in outward show, then such as in their harts are most glad. The fox bragged what a number of shifts and devices he had to get from the hounds; and the cat said he had but one, which was to clinbe a tree. Bacon. Colours of Good and Evil. Like as a ship, in which no balance lies, G. Fletcher. Christ's Triumph on Earth. Pro. Why Valentine, what bragadisme is this? Val. Pardon me (Protheus) all I can is nothing, To her, whose worth, make other worthies nothing, Shee is alone. Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act ii. sc. 4. Or shall I say, that I can scarce forbear That modern cowards, when they saw him plaid, Maine. On Beaum. & Fletcher's Works. Dio. The bruite is, Hector's slaine, and by Achilles. Aia. If it be so, yet braglesse let it be, Flora now calleth forth each flower, And bids make ready Maia's bower That new is uprist from bed. Great Hector was a man as good as he. The word appears to refer to the suddenness and Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act v. sc. 10. violence with which Bertram had wooed her. Seest not thilke same hawthorne studde, How bragly it begins to budde, And vtter his tender head? Spenser. Shepherd's Calendar. March. To the onely shadow of whose worth yet, I entitle not the bold rimes of euery apish and impudent braggart, (though he dares assume any thing) such I turne over to the weauing of cobwebs.-Chapman. Homer. Preface to the Reader. Before she [the Author's wife] putteth her first woort into the furnace, or mingleth it with the hops, she taketh out a vessel full of eight or nine gallons, which she shutteth up close, and suffereth no aire to come into it till it become yellow, and this she reserveth by itself unto further use, calling it brackwoort.-Hollinshed. Desc. of England, c. 6. What if, when a pudding for dinner he lacks, Dodsley. Song. The Miller of Mansfield. Burke. Appeal to the Old Whigs. BRA'GGET. Scotch, Bragwort. The etymology is unknown. A compound drink made of honey and spices, (Grose.) Whalley adds, ale. See the quotation from Hollinshed. Thereto she coude skip, and make a game, As any kid or calf folowing his dame. Hire mouth was swete as braket or the meth, Or hord of apples, laid in hay or heth. Chaucer. The Miller's Tale, v. 3261. Captaine, if ever at the bozing ken, You have in draught of Darby drilled your men ; And we haue seru'd there armed all in ale With the browne bowle, and charg'd in bragget stale. B. Jonson. Masques. Gypsies Metamorphosed. "My mother told me iust how he would woo, As if she sate in 's heart. She sayes, all men Have the like oaths." A gret ok he wolde breide a doun, as smal gerde were, And bere forth in his hond, that folc forte a fere. R. Gloucester, p. 22. When the day was ent, to rest men wer alle laid, Isaac gan repent, that he to R. said. Fulle stille away he went, that was a theues braid. R. Brunne, p. 164. Iak brother had he slayn, the Waleis .nat is said, The more lak was fayn, to do William that braid. Id. p. 329. And whanne he cam nygh, the devel hurllede him doun and to brayde him.-Wiciif. Luke, c. 9. For Hercules hede of hym toke, Till it was vnderne high and mo And than he gan to sigh sore, And sodeinly he brayde of slepe. While in this sort he did his tale pronounce: With waiward looke she gan him ay behold, And rolling eies, that moued to and fro; With silente looke discoursing ouer all And foorth in rage at last thus gan she brayde. Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv. He brigeth to the matter after his twoo yeres musing thereupo, neither in sight of any substaunciall learning, nor yet anye proofe of reason or natural wytte, but onely a rashe maliciouse fraticke braide —Sir T. More. Workes, p. 442. Id. Ib. b. v. The single twyned cordes may no such stresse indure. As cables brayded thre-fould may, together wrethed sure. Surrey. Ecclesiastes. S. Peter saith; let not the outward apparell of women bee decked with the brayding of hir haire, not with wrapping of golde about it, or goodly cloathing: but the mind and the conscience, that is not seene with eyes, if it be pure & quiet, that is a godly thing and excellent afore God. And S. Paul saith; women in their array shoulde apparell themselues with shamefastnes and sobernes, and not with bragdes of their haires, or golde, or pearles or precious clothing: but as women ought to doe, let them shew vertue by good workes.-Vives. Instr. of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 9. Behold, behold, they neuer stand content With God, with kinde, with any help of arte, But curle their locks, with bodkins and with braids, But dye their heare, with sundry subtill sleights. Gascoigne. Epilogue to the Steel Glass. When he [Alexander] sawe he coulde not finde.the end of the thonges, that wer hidden within the wrethes, con straining the oracle to the uttermooste. He cutte the wrethes a sonder with a sworde, and, so when he had loosed the wreathes, he found the ends of the knottes wythin the braides.-Goldyng. Justine, fol. 54. BRAIL, v. The ropes used to truss up a BRAIL, n. sail to the yard or mast whereto it is attached, are, in a general sense, called brails (Falconer, note 12 on The Shipwreck, c. 2.) Per haps Be-rail or Be-riggle. See RAIL, RIG. The main sail, by the squall so lately rent, Deep, on her side, the reeling vessel lies: Bruil up the mizen quick! the master cries.-Id. Ib. BRAIN, v. A. S. Brægen; Dut. Breyne BRAIN, n. Ger. Bregne. Wachter, Ju nius and Skinner concur in BRA'INISH. BRAINLESS. referring to the Gr. Вpeyua BRA'INSICK. sinciput; quod est (Skinne BRA'INSICKLY. adds) cerebri sedes. Βρεγμα BRA'INSICKNESS. Eustathius says, (in Il. € BRAINWORM. v. 586.) is so called anо TO Bpexew, to wet, to moisten; because in infant that part is wet or moist? Brægen may be formed of Be-rægn, (ber pronounced br.) See RAIN. To brain, is to deprive of the brain, to knoc out the brains. Brainsick,-sick in the head or brain; weak ailing, addle, in the head or understanding. Brain-worm,-one who has a worm, a maggo in his head. Ac the emperour mid his scheld tho strok hente ynow. And drow hys swerd an hey, & to the gronde faste slow, And smot Nennyn thorg the helm somdel toward the bray R. Gloucester, p. 4! The long day with speares sharp yground With arows, darts, swerds, and maces fel They fight, & bringen horse & man to ground And with hir axes out the braines quel. Chaucer. Troilus, b. i Yet haue I prooued them openly with the everlastyng worde of God and that not wroonge, nor wrested after m lyghte brayne, but after the exposition of clerkely doctour yea and that of the oldest & of the best. Barnes. Workes, p. 35 And in ver deed it were better to be married vnto an mage, or a picture, or vnto a painted table than to bee marned to a vicious, or a foolish, or a brainless man. Vices. Instr. of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 16. When rash vnbridled youth had run his recklesse race, And caried me with carelesse course to many a great disgrace, Then riper mellowed yeares, thought good to turne their trade, And bad repentance holde the reines, to rule the brainsicke jade. Gascoigne. Weedes. He sayd, this unement es so gode, That, if a man be brayn-wode, And be war ones anoynt with yt, Smertly sold he have his wit.-Ywaine & Gawin, 1. 1756. Trin. They say there's but fiue upon this isle: we are three of them: if th' other two be brain'd like us, the state totters.-Shakespeare. Tempest, Act iii. sc. 2. Past. Tis still a dreame: or else such stuffe as madmen Tongue, but braine not. Id. Cymbeline, Act v. sc. 4. Hots. By this hand, if I were now by this rascall, I could braine him with his ladies' fan. Id. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act ii. sc. 3. "I did not read to the intent to be edified thereby nor to seeke the glorie of God: contrariwise, arrogantly to be seditious and to dispute thereof, and priuately to interpret it after my owne brayne and affection." Stow. Q. Mary, an. 1553. Because the work might in truth be judged brainish, if nothing but amorous humour were handled therein, I have interwoven matters historical, which unexplained, might defraud the mind of much content. Drayton. To the Reader. The old Earle of Kildare, deceased in the tower, wishing in his death bed, that either he had died before he had beard of the Rebellion, or that his brainelesse boy had never lived to raise the like commotion. Hollinshed. Chron. of Ireland, an. 1539. The upper part of this root (for it groweth double) stamped with frankincence and mixt with wine of equall weight, and so made into salve, draweth out the spills or broken skales in the brain-pan or scull.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxv. c. 11. Repaire to heare the wedded make Id. The Lover hoping Redress, &c. Had I that honest blood in my veins again, Queen, that your feats, and these frights have drain'd from me, honour should pull hard, e'r it drew me into these brakes. Beaum. & Fletch. Thierry & Theo. Act v. sc. 1. The fields of combat here are beds of downe, Or heaped lilies vnder shadie brakes; But come and see our queene with golden crowne That all her seruants blest & happie makes. Fairefax. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xv. s. 64. Why kept he not amongst the fennes? Or in the woods, and braky glennes, Browne. The Shepheard's Pipe. Thus at the shut of ev'n, the weary bird BRAMBLE, n. BRA'MBLED. BRA'MBLY. Dut. Braem; A. S. Brambel, bremble, which Skinner derives from the A. S. Bremel, angens, crucians; because it tears or lacerates the hands with its thorns. Bremel probably is from Bremman, furere. See BRIMME. But he was chaste and no lechour, Chaucer. The Rime of Sir Thopas, v. 13,676. Wyat. Of the meane and sure Estate. But in the one it bryngeth forth good corne & sweete frutes and in the other it bryngeth forth nettles and brombilles, that be nothing worth but to the fier. Barnes. Workes, p. 261. Whereupon is thought that he [Demosthenes] forsook his colours and iled; now as he made haste away, there chanced a bramble to take hold of his cassock beninde, whereat he turned back and said unto the bramble: Save any life and take my ransome.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 765. Hark, how they warble in that brambly bush, The gaudy goldfinch, and the speckly thrush. A. Philips, Past. 4. What tho' no native charms my person grace, Nor beauty moulds my form, nor paints my face; The sweetest fruit may often pall the taste, While sloes and brambles yield a safe repast. Blacklock. The Plaintive Shepherd. Yet hence inthron'd in venerable state, Proud hospitality dispens'd her store; Ah, see, beneath yon tower's unvaulted gate, Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. Warton, Ode 3. BRAN. Fr. Bran; It. Brenna. Somner BRANNY. thinks it is from the A. S. Brun, brown. Chaucer writes Bren. (See Junius and Menage.) The brown, as contrasted with the white, (sc.) the white meal. Doth the bramble cumber a garden! It makes the better hedge where if it chances to prick the owner. it will tear the thief.-Grew. Cosmologia Sacra, b. iii. c. 2. 217 In schole is great altercation In this matere, and grete disputation, And hath ben of an hundred thousand men, But I ne can not boulte it to the bren. Chaucer. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15,177. Ye shall, I warrant you, very well perceiue, that whe his wordes be well sifted, men shall find little fine flowre in the, but all very mustie branne, not worthy so much as to fede either horse or hogges.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 649. For that is meale with philosophers, is taken but for bran and chaffe with simple folke. And contrariwise, the meale of the simple is but bran and chaffe among wise men. Golden Boke, c. 12. Their common drinke is mead, the poorer sort vse water, and a third drinke called quasse, which is nothing else (as we say) but water turned out of his wits, with a little branne meashed with it.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 469. Otherwhiles there be certain brannie scales called dandruffe, which over-spread the head. Holland. Plinie, b. xxix. c. 6. Feed him with herbs, whatever thou canst find, Of generous warmth: and of salacious kind, Then water him, and (drinking what he can) Encourage him to thirst again with bran. Dryden. Virgile, Geor. 3. BRANCH, v. Dut. Branche; Ger. Rank; BRANCH, n. Fr. Branche; It. Branca. BRANCHER. Kilian and Wachter, from BRA'NCHING, n. Rank-en, recken, to reach, to BRA'NCHLESS. extend. Others, from Lat. RaBRA'NCHY. mus or Brachium. More plainly from the A. S. Be-wrenc-an, or be-wring-an; Dut. Be-wringhen, wroncken; Ger. Renk-en, to wring, or wrench, or raunch; to be-raunch, to braunch or branch, to twist, to turn, to bend; and thus branch, the n. is nearly equivalent to bough; and to branch BRAND, v. BRAND, n. BRAND-NEW. Brennan, to burn. To brand is to burn, (sc.) a spot or mark in token of infamy. A brand is a burning stick or torch; a spot or mark burned. A sword is also so called, because in motion it glitters like a burning torch, like a fire-brand, (Skinner.) But Hickes,-because the ancients in fabricating swords, endeavoured to give them the appearance of flaming fire. Brand-new,-Dut. Brandnieuw (Skinner observes), is by an elegant metaphor deduced e re fabrili: new from the fire, from the forge. A brand, torris ignitus. Dut. and Ger. Brand, from the Dut. Branden; Ger. Brennen; A. S. All wit which borders upon prophaneness and makes bold with those things to which the greatest reverence is due deserves to be branded for folly.-Tillotson, vol. i. Ser. 2. Yet since the effects of Providence we find Are variously dispensed to human kind; That vice triumphs, and virtue suffers here, A brand that sovereign justice cannot bear ; Our reason prompts us to a future state. Dryden. Religio Laici. When in her faithful and immortal page, They saw transmitted down from age to age Recorded villains, and each spotted name Branded with marks of everlasting shame, Succeeding villains sought her as a friend, And if not really mended, feign'd to mend. Churchill. The Candidate. Hence the school divines have branded the practice of taking interest, as being contrary to the divine law both natural and revealed.-Blackstone. Com. b. ii. c. 30. Trample th' invader's lofty crest And from his grasp the dagger wrest, And desolating brand. } Beattie. Ode on Lord H 's Birth-day. BRANDISH, v. "From Brand, (see ante.) BRANDISH, n. Anglice, to brandish a BRANDISHER. sword, gladium strictum vibrando corruscare facere," (Hickes, Gram. A. S. p. 192.) Junius also thinks that brandish was first applied to the motion of a brand, and then generally to denote-to wave, to shake. Fr. Brandir; (It. Brandire; which Menage derives from the Lat. Vibrare;) to shine or glister with a gentle shaking or soft moving, (Cotgrave.) To wave, (sc. while held or grasped,) to move to and fro in attitude of defence or attack; to vibrate. To the king again went he there, And said, "Lief sir, I saw a hand; And thrice it brandished that rich brand." So they set on, first discharging their arrowes, then dealing with their swordes, which they use in brauerie to shake, and brandish ouer their heads before they came to strokes. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 484. And as Jove brandishing a starre (which men a comet call) Hurles out his curled haire abroad. that from his brand exales A thousand sparkes.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. iv. Vpon the bridge appear'd a warlike swaine Fairefax. Godfrey of Borllogne, b. xvii. s. 31. Prior. The Viceroy. A Ballad. But the most sonorous part of our consort, was a she drum, or (as the vulgar call it) a kettle drum, who accompanied her discourse with motions of the body, tosses of the head, and brandishes of the fan.-Tatler, No. 157. With old Silenus reclining, through the crowd The ivy-mantled thyrsus.-Akenside. Hymn to the Naiads. Princes cannot be too suspicious when their lives are sought, and subjects cannot be too curious when the state brandles.-State Trials, 4th James I. an. 1606. BRANDY. Dut. Brand-wijn; Sw. Braen-win; Ger. Brand-wein. Brand, i. e. burned;-and wine, Ross. Helenore, in Jamieso. corrupted into y in English. Ger. Buy any brand wine, buy any brand wine! Beaum. & Fletch. Beggar's Bush, Act iii. sc. 1. The Dutch their wine and all their brandy lose, Disarm'd of that from which their courage grows: While the glad English, to relieve their toil, In healths to their great leader drink the spoil. Waller. Instructions to a Painter. Forgets his pomp, dead to ambitious fires, And to some peaceful brandy-shop retires; Where in full gills his anxious thoughts he drowns, And quaffs away the care that waits on crowns. Addison. The Play House. Thus the wool of England used to be exchanged for the wines of France, and the fine cloths of Flanders; in the same manner, as the corn in Poland is at this day, exchanged for the wines and brandies of France, and for the silks and velvets of France and Italy. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iii. c. 3. BRANGLE. To brangle is interpreted by Lye, to brandish, to shake. The Glossarist to G. Douglas thinks it is from the Fr. Branler or Bransler, to move, to shake. Dr. Jamieson coincides in this; and if they are right, brangle and brandle are merely different ways of writing the same word. (See BRANDLE and BRANSEL.) But Brangle is also interpreted juryari, altercari, to wrangle; which Skinner and Junius agree is wrongle, a diminutive of wrong, the past part. of wring, to twist, to distort, to misrepresent; and thus This is "durus sermo,' 39 says some brangling parishioner, that fetches up his poor minister every term for trifles. Bp. Hall. Rem. p. 81. A fellow, whose father was a butcher, desiring a lawyer to be referee in some little brangle between him and his neighbour, complained that the lawyer excused himself. Swift, vol. xxi. Let. 410. Jealousies, quarrels, and other ruptures, are as frequent between neighbouring squires, and from the same motives: the former brangling about their mears and bounds, as the others do about their frontiers-Id. Ib. The payment of tythes in this kingdom is subject to so many frauds, brangles, and other difficulties, not only from papists and dissenters, but even from those who profess themselves protestants.-Id. On settling the Tithe on Hemp. BRA'NSEL. Fr. Branler or bransler; to brandle. Bransle the n. Cotgrave says, is "a brandling, &c. Also, a brawl or dance, wherein many (men and women) holding by the hands, sometimes, in a ring, and otherwhiles at length. move altogether G. Douglas, in the Threttene Booke of Eneados uses brangill for a dance. And other-whiles, with amorous delights, BRASS. A. S. Bras; whence perhaps BRA'SSY. (says Junius) the Fr. Bronze; It. BRA'SIER. and Sp. Bronzo: but Tooke is of opinion that these are from the old English to bren or brin; (A. S. Bernan, brenn-an;) i. e. to burn. The A. S. Bræs, brass, may have a similar origin, viz. A. S. Brastlian; Ger. Brasen, to burn; and the metal may be so called from its colour. The Brutons made deol y nou tho he ded lay, And made Kynge's fourme of brass al holu wythinne Vpe an hors ryde of bras, & that body dude therynne. R. Gloucester, p. 251. -Reison me shewith A belle to byggen of bras. other of brygt silver. Piers Plouhman, p. 9. If I speke with tungis of men and of aungels and I haue no charite, I am maad as bras sownyng, or a cymbal tynklynge. Wiclif. 1 Corynth, c. 13. Thoughe I spake we the tonges of men and angels, & yet had no loue. I were euen as soudinge brasse: or as tikelynge cymball.-Bible, 1551. Ib. BRAVE, v. BRAVE, n. BRAVE, adj. BRA'VING, n. BRAVELY. BRAVENESS. BRAVERY. BRAVA'DO. Prior. To Fleetwood Shephard. When the mad fit comes on, I seize the pen, Churchill. Gotham, b. ii. That which warmeth, a warm cloak or covering. Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,349. Fr. Brave; It and Sp. Bravo; Ger. Brav; Dut. Brauwe; Sw. Braf. Junius says, that it seems to be απο του βραβείου, the reward of victory. Wachter derives it from the Lat. Probus: to this Ihre prefers, Brage, heros; A. S. Brego. But Duchat obBRA'VO. serves, that brave, in the application to finery, is the same thing as the ancient word bragard, (g into v.) And it is evident in many of the examples following, that brave, bravery, (applied either to person or thing,) and bravado, are used to express, loud, ostentatious bragging; a bragging, boastful, ostentatious display of finery, of dress, of pride, of power, of courage, of daring. (See the usages of Braw in Jamieson.) A brave, From royall court I lately came (said he) Where all the braverie that eye may see, And all the happinesse that heart desire, Is to be found. Spenser. Mother Hubberds Tale. True. To refuse him at such a festival-time as this, being a bravery, and a wit too. B. Jonson. The Silent Woman, Act i. sc. 2. Know. Nor would I, you should melt away yourself In flashing bravery, lest, while you affect To make a blaze of gentry to the world A little puff of scorn extinguish it. Id. Every Man in his Humour, Act i. sc. 1. Har. By Astaroth e're long thou shalt lament These braveries in irons loaden on thee. Millon. Samson Agonistes. Like a stately ship I'm told so. And own, it has often surprised me while we have had so many instances of bravery there, we have had so few of wit at home to praise it. Goldsmith. The Good Natur'd Man, Act iii. Conscious of guilt, and fearful of the light, BRAWL, v. BRAWL, n. BRAWLER. BRAWLING. To squabble, to quarrel in a loud and noisy manner, to wrangle, to rail. Brawl is contracted from Brabble, (qv.) And see BROIL As now applied it is For brawlers and brawling in Piers Plouhman, see BACKBITte. Let a man that is a man consider that he is a foole that brawleth openlie with his wife.-Golden Boke, c. 19. Nor with such nightlie brawles thy postern gate shall sounde, Nor roses strewde afront thy dore in dawning shall be founde. Turberville. The Louer exhorteth his Ladie, &c. And who soeuer imagineth any other fayth, deceueth himselfe, and is a vaine disputer and a brawler about wordes, and hath no feelyng in his hart.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 93. Some as enemies of all peace and concorde, couet no thing but discorde, debate and brallings. And there be some families wherein the man & wife do braule & striue like dogs and catts.-Caluine. Foure Godlye Sermons, Ser. 3. Than ye Captall say'd, nay, I warrant you it is nat for our profyte, for tharchprest is so great a brauler, yt if he come to vs he wyll but iangle. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 220. There is seldome any playinge at dyse, but therat is vehement chydyng and braulynge, horrible oathes, cruell, and some tyme mortall menaces. Sir T. Elyot. Governovr, b. i. c. 16. I was here stunned with a mixed noise of clamour and jollity; on one side of me I heard singing and dancing; on the other, brawles and clashing of swords.-Tailer, No. 120. Thou shalt be in as much danger in contending with a brawler in a private quarrel as in a battle, wherein thou may'st get honour to thyself and safety to thy prince and country; but, if thou be once engaged, carry thyself bravely that they may fear thee after.-Oldys. Life of Ralegh. Self is so mingled with the sentiments which we have chosen, and has such a tender feeling of all the opposition which is made to them, that personal brawls are very ready to come in as seconds, to succeed and finish the dispute of opinions. Watts. Improvement of the Mind, pt. i. c. 10. BRAWL. A dance. See BRANSEL. They maye [celerity and slowness] be welle resembled to the braule in daunsynge (for in our Englyshe tonge we say men do braule), whan between them there is altercation in wordis.-Sir T. Elyot. Governor, b. i. c. 22. And so haue I declared what utilitie may be taken of a braule in daunsynge.-Id. Ib. And thence did Venus learn to lead B. Jonson. The Vision of Delight. Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave lord-keeper led the brawls; The seal and maces danc'd before him. Gray. A Long Story. |