3 i8 PROVINCIALISMS. 



BOTCHET ; fmall-beer mead. 



BOTTRY; elder : a " bottry tree." 



BRAKENS j pterls aqttilina', brakes ; fern. 



BRANT j fteep - t as a hill, or a road (the common 

 epithet). 



BRASS ; halfpence. 



BRASHY; fmall, rubbiflily ; as, refufe fuel. 



To BRAY j to pound, or to break fmall, as lime- 

 ftones for the kiln, &c. 



BREEA ; the brink or bank of a brook or river. 



BREERS ; brambles and briars. 



BRIDE-DOOR ; " to run for the bride-door," is 

 to ftart for a favor given by a bride to be run fcr 

 by the youth of the neighbourhood ; who wait at 

 the church-door until the marriage ceremony be 

 over, and frcm thence run to the bride's door. 

 The prize a ribbon, which is worn for the day in 

 the hat of the winner. If the diftance be great, 

 as two or three miles, it is cuftomary to " ride for 

 the bride-door." 



BRIDE-WAIN ; a carriage loaded with houfhold 

 furniture and utenfils, travelling from the bride's 

 father's to the bridegroom's houfe. Formerly, 

 great parade and ceremony were obferved on this 

 occafion. The wains were drawn entirely by 

 oxen, whofe horns and heads were ornamented 

 with ribbons. Ten or perhaps twenty pair of 

 oxen have, on great occafions, a/lifted in drawing 

 a bride- wain, A young woman at her fpinning- 



wheel 



