brad 
of a head, a slight projection on OIK- side. It 
il when it i- ili-.sinililc that Ihr head should nut 
project, as in joinery, cabinet-work, anil pattcrn-makem' 
work. 
brad Omul), c. '. ; prot. anil pp. bi-addi-d, ppr. 
bradding. [< hntil, .] To nail wi' 
brad-awl (brad'al), . An awl used to make 
holes for brails. 
brad-driver (bnd'dr!'vte)i . A tool used 
principally for fastening moldings to door- 
panels with brads. It consists of a holder and 
a plunder driven liy a mallet. Also called 
brad-butter. 
Bradford clay. Se.- ,-/,i,/. 
bradoon (bra-<liin'), ii. Same MS liriilomi. 
brad-setter (brad'sefer), H. Same as lirml- 
bradyarthria (brad-i-iir'thri-ii), . [NL., < 
dr. v'"' 1 "., slow, + lifAftov, a joint.] In palhol., 
slowness of speech dependent on disease or de- 
fect in the nerve-centers of articulation. Also 
called bradylalia. 
bradycrote (brad'i-krot), a. |X Or. /1/xiifn;, 
slow, + Kp6rof, a beating, clapping, etc.] In 
med., pertaining to or producing infrequency 
of pulse. 
bradylalia (brad-i-la'li-ii), . [NL., < Or. 
.fyinilrr, slow, + /.aZof, talking, talkative.] Same 
as briu/i/iirlln'iii. 
bradypepsia (brad-i-pep'si-ii), n. [NL., < Gr. 
,</i(!cTn/'/a, < /tyxjdi'f, slow. '4- jrt^iif, digestion, 
< irmreiv, digest.] Slow digestion. 
bradyphasia (brad-i-fa'zi-H,), n. [NL., < Gr. 
ji/xiot't;, glow, + <t>aatr, speaking, < ifxivat, speak.] 
Slowness of speech. 
bradyphrasia (brad-i-fra'zi-ii), . [NL., < Gr. 
ftxMvc, slow, + <j>i>6aif, speech: see phrase.] In 
pa thai., slowness of speech due to mental de- 
fect or disease. 
bradypod, bradypode (brad'i-pod, -pod), . 
A slow-moving animal; a sloth; one of the 
Bradypoda. 
Bradypoda (bra-dip'o-dii), it. pi. [NL., < Gr. 
lipaSunoAa, neut. pi. of (ipaiinrovf, slow of foot : 
gee BradtipHx.'] A term proposed by Blumen- 
bach for an order of mammals, nearly the same 
as the subsequently named Cuvierian Edentata, 
or the earlier Bruta of Liuuseus: applied in a 
more restricted sense to the sloths and sloth- 
like edentates : synonymous with Tardigraila. 
See slotli. 
bradypode, . See bradypod. 
bradypodid (bra-dip'o-did), n. An edentate 
mammal of the family Bradyjtodidas. 
Bradypodidae (brad-i-pod'i-de), M. pi. [NL., < 
linidiiints (-/mil-) + 4<te.] A family of Ameri- 
can edentates, the sloths. They have 10 teeth in thr 
upper jaw anil 8 in the lower, of persistent growth, consist - 
ing of vasodentine invested with dentine and cement with- 
out enamel ; their fore limbs are longer than the hind ones ; 
they have not more than three di,;i ts, bearing large claws ; 
the tail is rudimentary ; the ears nre small ; the pelage is 
coarse and crisp ; the stomach is simple ; there is no caecum, 
and the placenta is discoid and deciduate. There are two 
leading genera extant, BradypttJt and Cholopu*. See ttluth, 
and cut under Cholopus. 
Bradypus (brad'i-pus), . [NL., < Gr. Ppai'u- 
Trouf, slow of foot, < ppaiii'f, slow, + jroi'f (;ro<5-) 
= E. foot.'] The typical genus of the family 
Bradi/podida: containing me ai, or three-toed 
or collared sloth, H. tridai-lyhix or torquatus. 
bradyspermatism (brad-i-sper'ma-tizm), H. 
[< Gr. Bpadbf, slow, -t- aTrepfia(T-), seed, + -I.V/M.] 
Inpathol., a too slow emission of the semen. 
brae (bra), H. [= E. bray*, q. v,] The side of 
a hill or other rising ground; an acclivity: a 
stretch of sloping ground ; aslope. [Scotch.] 
o'er Imnk and km,', 
Like tire from flint he glanced away. 
Nn,/,, L. of the L., iii. Si 
brag (brag), r. ; pret. and pp. bragged, ppr. 
bragging. [< ME. braygi n, bragrn, \ OF. ara- 
i/iii'r, flaunt, brave, brag, > brague, pleasure, 
amusement, bragard, gallant, gay (see hnig- 
!l<ir: of Celtic origin : cf. \V. bragio, brag, also 
brae, boastful, = Ir. hragaim, I boast, = Bret. 
braga, flaunt, strut, walk pompously, wear fine 
clothes; related to Gael, brai/lt, a burst, explo- 
sion, and thus ult. to E. break, Icel. braka, 
creak, etc. Cf. crack, boast, as related to i-rai-k, 
break with a noise. See bray", brairl 1 , and 
brace.'] I. iiilrinis. 1. To use boastful lan- 
guage; speak vaingloriously of one's self or 
belongings ; boast ; vaunt : used absolutely, or 
followed by of, formerly sometimes by on: 
as, to bray of a good horse, or of a feat of 
arms. 
>'or-\vh\ he bn>tcth and l 
uith many bolde othes. 
Pf n /'/.. ( (ID, xiii. *!. 
655 
1'onceit, mi. re rirli in mutter than In words, 
/.'('//- :! hi* substance, not "/ornann Tit. 
Shale., It. and .1., ii. i;. 
It u \ *cveral I'api.tU that UJMHI such a day, 
or mind a tmi'- u< -h<nild tlnd tbc hottest weather that 
ever was in KiiKland ; and words of plainer sense. 
I'rpyt, Diary, III. X. 
Yet, lo ! in me what authors have to brag on ! 
K'-diieed at last to hiss in mv own dragon. 
Pope, Duiu-iad, iii. is:,. 
2t. To sound, as a trumpet ; blare ; bray. 
yviiannc the voyce of the troni|>e ... iii gonre eerls 
Hi. Wyclif, Josh. vi. 5 (Oxf.X 
II. Irani*. 1. To boast of. [Rare.] 
He brag* his service. Shale., Cymlieline, v. 8. 
Hear thy good luck with you when you cross these paved 
stones, and by our Lady, you may hra</ Scotland. 
.sv/, Alilwt, I. xvii. 
2f. To blow (a trumpet). 
Thane the Bretones (widely braggtne theire trompjiez. 
Mortt .\,ilni f . \. 1 1- 1. 
brag (brag), H. [< ME. brag ; from the verb.] 
1 . A boast or boasting ; a vaunt ; also, boast- 
fidnegs. 
What owtward bray so euer Is borne by them, Is In deed, 
of it selfe, and in wise men* eyes, of no great estimation. 
Ancliuiii, The Sclioli-niasti i . p. N, 
Life invests itoelf with inevitable conditions. lik-li tin 
unwise seek to dodge, which one and another brags that 
he does not know ; brags that they do not touch him ; but 
the brag is on his lips, the conditions are in his soul. 
Emernm. 
2. A thing to boast of; source of pride. 
Beauty is Nature's brag. Hilton, Corniu, 1. 745. 
The sprout of an aik, 
Bonnie, and blooming, and straight was iu make ; 
The sun took delight to shine for its sake, 
And it will be the bray o' the forest yet. Border ballad. 
3. A game of cards: same as poker. 4. A 
bragger. 
bragt (brag), a. [< ME. brag; from the noun.] 
Proud; boasting: as, "that bragge prescrip- 
tion," Stapletoii, Fortress of the Faith (1565), 
fol. 68. Also used adverbially. 
Seest how brag yond Bullocke beares, 
So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares? 
Spenter, Shep. Cal., Feb. 
Bragantia (bra-gau'shi-S), . [NL.] A genus 
of undershrubs, of the natural order Aristolo- 
chiacea;, including three or four species of the 
East Indies. B. tomentosa is very bitter, and is 
used in medicine as a tonic and emmenagogue. 
bragaudt, bragawdt, . Same as braggetf. 
bragay (bra-ga'). [E. dial.; origin un- 
known.] A local English name of the gadoid 
fish otherwise called the bib. 
braggadocio (brag-a-do'shio), H. [< Bragga- 
rlocliio, name of a boastful character in the 
"Faerie Oueene" (ii. 3); coined by Spenser < 
E. brag, with an Italian-seeming termination.] 
1. A boasting fellow ; a braggart. 
What rattling thunderclappe breakes from his lips 
O ! 'tis native to his part. For acting a moderue bray- 
yadoch ... it may seeme to suite. 
Harntun, Antonio and Mellida, Ind., p. 4. 
The world abounds iu terrible fanfarons, In the mas<|iie 
of men of honour ; but these braggadacim are easy to lie 
detected. Sir K. L'Entranye. 
2. Empty boasting ; brag: as, '' tiresome brag- 
gadocio," Bultcer, Last Days of Pompeii, iv. '2. 
He shook his list at Lord Wlcklow and quoted Cicero, 
man braggadocio*. 
Durratli, quoted ill Edinburgh Rev., CLXIII. 514. 
braggardt (brag'ard), a. and H. Earlier form 
of braggart. 
braggardiset, . [< OF. bragardise, < bragard, 
bragging: see braggart.'} Bragging; braggar- 
liistn. Minnhru. 
braggardismt (brag'Sr-dizm), H. [< braggard 
+ -ism.'] Boastf ulness ; vain ostentation: as, 
" what braggardimi is this f " Shak., T. G. of V., 
ii. 4. Also braggartism. 
braggart (brag'art), a. and H. [Formerly brag- 
i/iinT; = SlD. braggaerd, a fop, < OF. bragard, 
gay, gallant, flaunting, also braggard, bragging, 
braggadocio-like, < braguer, flaunt, brag : see 
brag, r. The E. braggard, braggart, as a noun, 
is practically a var. of bragger.] I. a. Boast- 
ful; vauntingly ostentatious. 
Shout that his braggart hosts are put to rout ! 
His empire has gone down ! K. It. Stoddanl, Ciraar. 
Talking of himself and his plans with large and brag- 
gart vagueness. Unwell*. .Modern Instance, vi. 
II. n. A boaster; a vaunting fellow. 
\Vho knows himself a braggart, 
Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass, 
That every tmi'fiart shall lie found an ass. 
.sVoiA.. All, Well, iv. M. 
braggartly ll>riig'iirt-li), a. [< bramini-t + -/yl.] 
Boastful, 
brahma 
Who ever Haw true learning, wiftdoln, or wit, voui-luuifc 
mansion in any proud, \;mi .-|..i i-m- an i 
spiril 1 ; Chapiium, Ilia<l. ill., I'omiiient. 
braggartry (brag'iirt-ri), . ; pi. bragi/tn-tri'* 
(-nz). [(braggart + -//.] Vain boasting; 
linasl l/rx. linn-. [Kure.] 
braggatt, Same as braggi /-'. 
bragger (brag'er), . [< MK. /-;(/.'/"'. < brag 
+ -//!.] One who brags. 
Evere ware tiles Bretons brawicrr* of olile. 
M.,,l: .1,1.1 
The loudest l,ra<i<frx of .lews and UrcciallH are found 
guilty of spiritual ignorance. //<I//H. p. 047. 
bragget't, . An obsolete form of bnn-ii t ] 
bragget-t (brag'et), . [Also written braggiit, 
hrnHcit, lini/:, I (and, after W., bragaut, braifinnl. 
bragawd, bragoe), formerly also brarl.n-n, 
bragwort, bregicort (in simulation of icorft) ; < 
ME\ braget, brai/at, brngot. < \V. bragmrd, bra- 
!/i><l, a kind of mead (= Corn, bregaud, bragot, a 
kind of mead, = Ir. bracat, malt liquor), < brag 
(= Ir. braiclt = Gael, braich), malt, < bragiit, 
issue, sprout, = Gael, brack, ferment, = Ir. 
bracaim, I ferment; perhaps akin to E. frrcir 1 .] 
A kind of mead made of ale boiled with honey, 
seasoned with pepper, cloves, mace, cinnamon, 
nutmegs, and fermented with wort or yeast. 
His mouth was sweete as brayitt is or meth. 
Chauctr, Millers Tale, L 75. 
Qood ale, perrys, bragoet, syder, and methegllns, was 
the true auntlent British and 1'royan drinks. 
M:i : *'"" Dutch Courtezan, v. 1. 
And we have served there, armed all in ale, 
With the brown bowl, and charged with braggat stale. 
It. Jitnuun, Gypsies Metamorphosed. 
Such a dainty doe to be taken 
By one that knows not neck-tieef from a pheasant, 
Nor cannot relish bniyini from ambrosia? 
bragging 
Boastful. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night- Walker, I. 4. 
(brag'ing), p. a. [Ppr. of brag, r.] 
Loud and bragging self-importance. W. Black. 
braggingly (brag'ing-li), orfr. In a bragging 
manner; boastingly. 
bragless (brag'les), a. [< brag + -les.] With- 
out bragging or ostentation. [Rare.] 
Ii'". The bruit in, Hector's slain and by Achilles. 
Ajax. If it be so, yet braglew let it be. 
Shak., T. and ('., v. 10. 
braglyt (brag'li), adr. [< brag, a., + -ty2.] 
Bravely; finely. 
How bragly it [a hawthorn) begins to bud. 
Spenter, Shep. Cal., March. 
bragott, Same as bragged. 
braguette (bra-get'), . [OF. : see bracket^.] 
A piece of armor corresponding to a cod-piece. 
Also written brauette.-Qn&t braguette, a name 
sometimes given, at the end of the fourteenth century, to 
the tassets, when developed into a sort of skirt See bra 
conniere. 
bragWOrtt (brag'wert), . A Scotch form of 
lifin/i/et^. 
Brabiia 1 , Brahm (brii'ma, bram), n. [Hind. 
brahm, bralima, < Skt. brah man (nom. brali'ma), 
neut., devotion, adoration, worship, prayer, 
sacred word, divine science, theosopny, the 
impersonal divinity; referred to the V brih, 
bark, be thick, great, strong, > briltant, great. 
mighty, lofty, ult. akin to AS. beorg, E. barroir, 
a hill, mound: see barroir 1 .] In Hindu reli- 
gion, the highest object of philosophic adora- 
tion ; the impersonal and absolute divinity ; the 
ineffable essence of the sacred. Also Brama. 
Brahma' 2 (bra'ma), H. [Hind. Brah'ma, < Skt. 
brahman' (uom. brahma'), masc., one who prays 
or worships, a pray-er, worshiper, directing 
priest, overseer of sacred things, also the im- 
personal divinity.] In later Hindu religion or 
theosophy, the personified Brahm; the divini- 
ty conceived as a god; the creator, i nknown in 
the older sacred literature, Brahma becomes by degrees 
an object of adoration to the Brahmans, and is artificially 
combined into a triinillti or trinity with Vishnu and Siva. 
iH-iiig regarded as Creator, while \ ishnu is Preserver, ami 
Siva is Destroyer. Brahma was never worshiped by the 
people, anil only one temple sacred to him is known. By 
modern Hindus he is represented as a red-colored figure, 
with four heads ami four anus, and often accompanied by 
his vehicle, the swan. Day Of Brahma. See dayl. 
brahma 8 (bra'mS), . [An abbreviation of 
liralnuaiiutrn.'} A variety of the domestic hen, 
of large size, belonging to the Asiatic class. 
The light brahma* are white and black in color, the black 
appearing on the hackle feathers as a rich stripe, heavier 
in the hen than in the cock, and also in the wing-primartos, 
the npiR T weh of the secondaries, and in the tail, the sickles 
uf the cock lielng glossy green-black. The il'irlc brahma 
i -01 -k shows a breast of solid black or black mottled with 
white, hackle and saddle ailvcr-w hilc, wing-bom white. 
wing-bars green-black, primaries and secondaries black 
edged with white, tail glossy green-black; while the hen 
is of a uniform gray color, each feather penciled with 
darker gray, or black. The brahma* have pea-comb* and 
feathered I,-* 
