brawl 
The ult. source of all these forms is 
perhaps the same. See brag."] I. intrans. 1. 
To speak loudly and_complainingly or angrily; 
be clamorous or noisy; quarrel noisily and in- 
decently. 
I do the wrong, and flrst begin to brawl. 
Shak., Rich. III., i. 3. 
2. To roar, as water flowing over a pebbly or 
rocky bed ; make a loud babbling noise. 
The brook that brawls along this wood. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 1. 
Crossing the brook at the ford, where it brawled over 
pebble and shallow. Longfellow, Miles Standish, iii. 
= Syn. 1. To wrangle, squabble, dispute (noisily). 
II. trans. 1. To wrangle about ; be noisy or 
contentious regarding. 
I care not what the sects may brawl. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
2. To drive away or beat down by noise. 
[Bare.] 
Your deep wit . . . 
Reason'd, not brawl'd her [Truth] hence. 
Sir K. Diyby, Preface to Nature of Man's Soul. 
brawl 1 (bral), it. [< brawl 1 , 0.] A noisy quar- 
rel; loud, angry contention; an uproar; row; 
squabble: as, " stout polemick brawl," S. But- 
ler, Hudibras. 
He is a devil in private brawl. 
Shak., T. N., iii. 4. 
A creature wholly given to brawls and wine. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
The whole world knows that this is no accidental brawl, 
but a systematic war to the knife, and in defiance of all 
laws and liberties. Emerson, Affairs in Kansas. 
= Syn. Broil, Affray, etc. See quarrel, n. 
brawl 2 (bral), n. [Early mod. E. also brail; a 
corruption of earlier bransle, also written bran- 
sel, brantle, brangle, etc., < F. bransle, now 
branle, a dance, same as bransle, braille, verbal 
n. of bransler, branler, shake, move, etc. : see 
brandle, brantle, branle."] A kind of dance ; a 
branle. 
Good fellowes must go learne to daunce, 
The brydeal is full near-a ; 
There is a brail come out of Fraunce, 
The fyrst ye harde this yeare-a. 
Good Fellou-eii (1569). (Halliwell, Note to Marston's Plays.) 
Thence did Venus learn to lead 
The Idalian brauis. B. Jonson, Vision of Delight. 
My grave lord-keeper led the brawls ; 
The seal and maces danced before him. 
Gray, Long Story. 
brawler (bra'ler), n. [ME. brawlere."] One 
who brawls ; a noisy fellow ; a wrangler. 
The great statesman degenerated into an angry brawler. 
Buckle, Civilization, I. xii. 
brawlie, adv. See brawly. 
brawling (bra/ling), n. [ME. braulyng; verbal 
n. of brawl*, v.~] The act of quarreling ; specifi- 
cally, in Eng. law, the offense of quarreling or 
creating a disturbance in a church or church- 
yard. 
brawling (bra/ling), p. a. [Ppr. of braid 1 , v.~\ 
1. Contentious; quarrelsome ; noisy. 
I know she is an irksome, brawling scold. 
Shak., T. of the S., i. 2. 
The spirit-grieving sounds of brawling commerce. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 160. 
From brawling parties concords come. 
Lowell, To the Muse. 
2. Making the noise of rushing water: as, 
"brawling springs," Collins. 
The brawling streams shall soon be dumb. 
0. W. Holmes, Old- Year Song. 
brawlingly (bra'ling-li), adv. In a brawling 
or quarrelsome manner, 
brawlins (bra'linz), adv. Same as brawly. 
[Scotch.] 
brawly (bra'li), adv. and a. [Also brawlie; = 
E. bravely.'} Bravely; finely; heartily; very 
well; in good health or condition. [Scotch.] 
I am brawly now again it was nae great thing that 
ailed me. Scott, Abbot, II. 82. 
brawn (bran), n. [< ME. braun, brawn, mus- 
cle, boar's flesh, < OF. braon, a piece of flesh, 
= Pr. bradon, brazon, braon = OSp. brahoti, < 
OHG. brdto (aco. brdton), a piece of flesh for 
roasting, MHG. brdte, G. braten, roast meat (= 
AS. bratae, roast meat), < OHG. bratan, MHG. 
braten, G. braten = AS. brcedan = OFries. 
breda = D. braden, roast, broil (cf. Dan. brad, 
a joint of meat) ; cf. Gr. xpffleiv, burn, blow into 
a flame.] 1. Boar's flesh ; the flesh of the boar 
or of swine, collared so as to squeeze out much 
of the fat, boiled, and pickled. 
I see nothing here like Christmas, excepting brawn and 
mincepies in places where I dine. 
Swift, Journal to Stella, Letter 38. 
2. Aboar. Beau, and Fl. [Now only prov. Eng.] 
Bulle-nekkyde was that bierne, and brade in the scholders 
Brok-brestede as a brawne with brustils fulle large 
Morte Arthurs (E. E. T. S.), i. 1095. 
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3. The flesh of a muscular part of the body : 
as, the brawn of the arm, thigh, etc. 
Itwas ordained that murtherers should be brent on the 
brawn of the left hand. Hall, Hen. VII., an. 1.".. 
4. Well-developed muscles; muscular strength. 
Brawn without brain is thine. Dryden, Fables. 
Here, then, is a great stalwart man, in perfect health, 
all brawn and rude muscle, set up before us as the ideal 
of strength. S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 54. 
5. Figuratively, the arm: from its muscles or 
strength. [Rare.] 
I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver, 
And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn. 
Shak., T. andC.,i. 3. 
I had purpose 
Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn, 
Or lose my arm for't. Shak., Cor., iv. 6. 
6. Head-cheese Mock brawn, the flesh of a pig's 
head and feet cut in pieces, and boiled, pickled, and 
pressed into a form. 
brawnedt (brand), a. [< brawn + -c<7 2 .] Brawny; 
strong: as, "brawned bowrs," Spenser, F. Q., I. 
viii. 41. 
brawner (bra'ner), n. [< braten + -er 1 .'] A boar 
killed for the table. 
brawn-fallent (bran 'fa In), a. Having the 
brawny or muscular parts of the body shrunk 
or fallen away ; wasted ; thin ; weak. 
Were not Milo his armes bramiefallen for want of 
wra.stlyng? Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 127. 
brawniness (bra'ni-nes), n. [< brawny + 
-ness.'] The quality of being brawny ; strength; 
hardiness. 
This brawniness and insensibility of mind is the best 
armour against the common evils and accidents of life. 
Locke, Education, 113. 
brawny (bra'ni), a. [< ME. brawny, fleshy (of 
fruit); < brawn + -yi.] 1. Fleshy; muscular; 
having large strong muscles ; bulky ; strong. 
Oxe dounge about her rootes yf that me trete 
The pomes sadde and brawny wol it gete. 
Palladium, iii. 106. 
The muscles of his brawny arms 
Are strong as iron bands. 
Longfellow, Village Blacksmith. 
2. Figuratively, firm ; hardened ; having great 
power of resistance. 
A brawny conscience which hath no feeling in it. 
J. Meile, Apost. of the Latter Times, ii. 
braws (braz), n. pi. See braw, n. 
braxy (brak'si), n. and a. [E. dial., Sc. also 
braies, braxit, also bracks, braik. Cf. brack 1 and 
brash?."] I. n. 1. A disease of sheep character- 
ized by inflammation of the bowels and reten- 
tion of the urine: also called the sickness in 
some parts of Scotland. The name is also given 
to a variety of other diseases of sheep. 2. A 
sheep having the braxy; hence, the mutton of 
such a sheep. 
II. a. Affected or tainted with braxy: as, 
braxy sheep ; braxy mutton. 
Also spelled braksy. 
bray 1 (bra), v. t. [< ME. brayen, < OF. brayer, 
breier, breltier, F. broyer = Pr. Sp. bregar, pound, 
bray, prob. < MHG. brechen = E. break, q. v.] 
To pound or beat thoroughly, as with a pestle 
or other instrument ; triturate, crush, mix, etc., 
by beating or any analogous action : as, to bray 
drugs ; to bray printers' ink. See brayer 1 . 
Recipe the cromys of whyte brede, & swete apyls, & 
gokkis of eggis, & bray tham wele. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 53. 
Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar, . . . yet 
will not his foolishness depart from him. Prov. xxvii. 22. 
bray 2 (bra), v. [< ME. brayen, < OF. braire, < 
ML. bragire, bray, bragare, cry, squall, prob. 
of Celtic origin: see brag and brawl 1 ."] I. 
intrans. 1. To utter a loud and harsh cry: with 
reference now especially to the ass, but for- 
merly also to the bull, deer, and other animals, 
as well as to man. 
Whan the squyers hadde cried and braied for theire lord 
longe while, the! toke hym vp and bar hym to theire hos- 
tell. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 467. 
Whan the Sarazin felte hym-self so diffouled, he nedde 
cryinge and brayinge as a bole [bull]. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 552. 
Laugh, and they 
Return it louder than an ass can bray. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires. 
Hence 2. To make a loud, harsh, disagree- 
able sound. 
Heard ye the din of battle bray! Gray, The Bard. 
And varying notes the war-pipes brayed 
To ever varying clan. Scott, Marmion, v. 5. 
II. trans. To utter with a loud, harsh sound, 
like the ass. 
The kettle-drum and trumpet thus brat/ out 
The triumph of his pledge. Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. 
Arms on armour clashing bray'd 
Horrible discord. Milton, P. L., vi. 209. 
brazen 
bray 2 (bra), n. [< ME. lirtty, a loud cry, also 
brayt, < OF. brait = Pr. brat; from the' verb.] 
A harsh cry, especially that of an ass; hence, 
any similar harsh or grating sound. 
Several times a day we arc stunned and overwhelmed 
with the cracked brays of three discordant trumpets. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 2fx 
bray 3 t (bra), n. [< OF. braie, a kind of bastion, 
a dike or bank, < ML. braca, a dike or bank, 
same as OF. braie, < ML. bniga, part of a river 
confined between dikes to facilitate the catch- 
ing of fish.] A bank or mound of earth used 
in fortification ; a breastwork ; a bulwark ; spe- 
cifically, a wall or other work in advance of 
and covering the gate of a fortress. 
That they could scant put their heads over the bray or 
bulwark. Hall, Hen. VIII., an. 16. 
Order was given that bulwarks, brays, and walls should 
be raised in his castles and strongholds. 
Lord Herbert, Hen. VIII., p. 28. 
bray 4 (bra), n. [= So. brae, bra, < ME. braye, 
also bra, bro, etc., < Gael, braigh, the upper part 
of any thing orplace (braigh duthcha, the higher 
parts of a district; braigh Lochabar, the braes 
of Lochaber, etc.), also braidli = Ir. braid, up- 
per part, height ; cf . W. brig, top, summit, bre, 
hill, peak, = AS. beorh, E. barrow, a hill, mound: 
see barrow 1 .'] A piece of sloping ground; an 
acclivity or declivity. 
Against a rocke or an hye braye. 
Ascham, Toxophilus, Works, p. 170. 
Push'd up the bray, indignantly they feel 
The clanking lash and the retorted steel. 
Brookes, The Fox-Chase. 
bray 5 (bra), n. [Also written brey ; < F. braye, 
" a close linnen breek or under-slop, . . . also 
a clout," pi. brayes, "short and close breeches, 
drawers, or under-hose of linnen, &c.," . . . 
also " barnacles for a horse's nose " (Cotgrave), 
mod. F. braies, breeches, < L. braca;, breeches : 
see braca, brail, and breech."] If. A clout for 
a young child. Kersey, 1708. 2. In her. : (a) 
Barnacles or twitchers for subduing a horse: 
used as a bearing, (b) [Perhaps a corruption 
of brake 3 , break."] A bearing similar to the 
preceding in form, representing a tool used 
for breaking hemp : sometimes called a hemp- 
bray, hemp-brake, or hackle. One or other of these 
hearings is frequently used in allusive heraldry for fami- 
lies of the name Bray and the like. 
brayd, braydet, r. and . See braid. 
brayer 1 (bra'er), M. [< bray 1 + -er 1 ."] Imprint- 
ing, a small composition-roller used for tritu- 
rating and spreading the ink on a table or slab 
and daubing it on a platen or disk. 
brayer 2 (bra'er), n. [< bray 2 + -er 1 ."] One 
who or that which brays like an ass. 
Brayera (bra-ye'ra), n. [NL.] See Hagenia. 
brayette (bra-yef), n. [F.] Same as braguette. 
braying (bra 'ing), n. [< ME. brayinge; verbal 
n. of bray 2 , .] 1. The harsh crying of an 
ass. 2. Vocal or instrumental clamor ; harsh 
utterance. 
There he stands with unimpeachable passivity amid the 
shouldering and braying ; a spectacle to men. 
Carlyle, French Rev., II. v. 2. 
braylet, . and v. See brail. 
braynet, See brain. 
braze 1 (braz), . t. ; pret. and pp. brazed, ppr. 
brazing. [< ME. brasen, < AS. brasian, cover 
with brass, < braes, brass : see brass 1 . Cf. glaze, 
(.glass; graze, < grass. ,] To cover or ornament 
with brass, or as if with brass: as, "a tripod 
richly brazed," Chapman, Odyssey, xv. 
Show of clouds 
That braze the horizon's western rim. 
Lou-ell, Under the Willows. 
braze 2 (braz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. brazed, ppr. 
brazing. [< F. braser, OF. braser, solder, < Icel. 
brasa, harden by fire : see brass 1 and braize 1 . 
Partly confused with braze 1 , from the same ult. 
source.] 1. To solder, especially with hard 
solder, such as an alloy of brass and zinc. 
In the reign of Henry IV. it was enacted that all arrow- 
heads should be well braced and hardened at the points 
with steel. Encyc. Brit., II. 372. 
2f. To harden ; make callous. 
Let me wring your heart : for so I shall, . . . 
If damned custom hath not brazil it sn. 
That it is proof and bulwark against sense. 
slink.. Hamlet, iii. I. 
braze 3 , . See brai:e 2 , 2. 
brazed (brazd). a. In her., same as braced, 1. 
brazen (bra'zn), a. [Early mod. E. also br.<, n. 
< ME. brasen, < AS. brtesen, of brass, < bra's, 
brass, + -en 2 .~\ 1. Made of brass : as, a brtt:.Tii 
helmet. 2. Pertaining to brass; proceeding 
from brass. 
