BRA 
No onger fliall thy comely treffes break 
In fl»wing ringlets on thy fnowy neck, 
Or fit behind thy head, an ample round, 
In-.graceful braids with various ribbon bound. Prior. 
BRAID, adj. [To brede, in Chaucer, is to deceive.] 
An old vord, which feems to fignify deceitful: 
Since Frenchmen are fo braid, 
Marry ’en that will. I’ll live and die a maid. Shakefpeare.- 
BRAID, a river of Ireland, which runs into the Main, 
about onenile and a half weft-fouth-weft of Ballymenagh, 
in the count; of Antrim. 
BRAIDAL'BIN, a didrift of Perthfliire in Scotland, 
dretching thirty-two miles from ead to wed, and thirteen 
where broaded from fouth to north ; it is very mountain¬ 
ous, lying among the Grampian hills, fuppofed to be the 
country anciently known by the name of A/banii, whence 
the Highlanders to this day call themfelveS Albinich. It 
produces-plenty-of game and black cattle; is inhabited by 
Highlanders faid <-o be very ferocious, and gives title to 
his majedy’s fecond fon, Frederic, who is dyled duke of 
York and Albany. \ 
BRAILS, f. in fea terms, fmall ropes reeved through 
blocks, which are feized on either fide the ties, a little off 
upon the yard ; fo that they come down before the fails 
of a diip, and are fadened at the fkirt of the fail to the 
crengles. Their- ufe is, when the fail is furled acrofs, to 
hail up its bunt, that it may the more readily be taken up 
or let fall. Harris. 
BRAIN, f. [brtvgen, Sax. breyne, Dut.] That collection 
of veffels and organs in the head, from which fenfe and 
motion arife. See Anatomy, vol.i. p.591.—That man 
proportionably hath the 1 larged brain , I did, 1 confefs, 
fomewhat doubt, and conceived it might have failed in 
birds, efpecially fuch as having little bodies, have yet large 
cranies, and feeni to contain much brain, as fnipes-and 
woodcocks; but, upon trial, I find it very true. Brown .— 
That part in which the underdanding is placed ;• therefore 
taken for the underdanding.—A man is fird a geometrician 
in his brain , before he be fuch in his hand. Hale. —Some¬ 
times the affections : this is not common, nor proper.—My 
fon Edgar! had he a hand to write th i sj a heart and brain 
to breed it in ? Shakefpeare. 
To BRAIN, v. a* To dafh out the brains; to kill by 
beating out the brains; 
Outlaws of nature, 
Fit to be diot arid brain'd without a procefs, 
To dop infeftion ; that’s their proper death. Dryden. 
BRAIN, a town of France, in the department of-the' 
Mayne and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Saumur ; two leagues north-ead of Saumu-r. 
BRAINE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Aifne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriftof Soiffons, 
fituated on a beautiful plain, on the river Vede : three 
leagues ead of Soidons. 
BRAINE ALLEU', or Branieii. Alleu, a town of 
the Netherlands, in the county of Hainaut: ten miles ead- 
north-ead of Braine le Comte. 
BRAINE LE COMTE, a town of the Netherlands, 
in the county of Hainaut, ceded with its (Igniory, which 
extends over eleven villages, to the houfe of Aremberg, 
in exchange for the territory of $evenbergen. It had for¬ 
merly a fortrefs, where the paridi-church now dands, and 
oppofite to it a tower, faid to have been built .by Brennus, 
a general of the Galli Senones, from whom the town is 
alio faid to have derived its name. This tower was blown 
up by the Spaniards in 1677. It is fifteen leagues fouth 
of Antwerp, and three and a half north of Mons. 
BRAIN'ISH, adj. Hot-headed; furious: as cerebrofus 
in- Latin: 
Behind the arras hearing fomething dir, 
He whips his rapier out, and cries, a rat 1 
And, in his brainijh apprehenfion, kills 
The unfeen good old man. Shakefpeare. 
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BRAIN'LESS, adj. Sill)-; thoughtlefs;, witlefs: 
The brainlefs dripling, who, expell’d the town, 
Damn’d the did'college and pedantic'gown, 
Aw’d by thy name, is dumb. Tickcll. 
BRAIN'PAN,/! The Ik till containing the brains r 
With thofe huge bellows in his hands lie blows 
New fire into my head ; my brainpan glow's. Diyden. 
BRAIN'SICK, adj. Dileafed in the underdanding: 
addle-headed; giddy; thoughtlefs.—They were brabfuk 
men, who could neither endure the government of their 
king, nor yet thankfully receive the authors of their de¬ 
liverance. Knollcs. 
BRAIN'SICKLY, adv. Weakly; headily: 
Why, worthy Thane, 
You do unbend your noble drength to think 
So brainfickly of things'. Shakfpeare. 
BRAIN'SICKNESS, f. Indifcretion ; giddinefs. 
BRAIN'TREE, a (mall town in the county of Edex, 
forty-two miles from London ; and noted fora great manu- 
faftory of baize and fays. It has a market on Wednefdays ; 
and fairs on May 8, and Oftober 22. This town has expe¬ 
rienced the bleding of many confiderable benefaftors to its 
poor ; among whom we find the name of Henry Smith, 
who is faid to have been once a beggar, and, from a dog 
that condantly followed him, had the nameof Dog-Smith ; he 
left 2800I. to be laid out in land, for the relief of the poor 
of this and fome other neighbouring parilhes. Here is like- 
w-ife a charity-fchool. t Near this place is Black Notlev, 
memorable as being the birth-place and burial-place of the 
learned Ray, author of “ The Wildom of God, manifeded 
in the Works of the Creation,” the “ Synoplis Plantarnm,” 
and many other valuable books. And at a final! didance 
is Felded, noted for a flouridling free-fchool, of an ancient 
foundation, in the patronage of the e<irls of Winchelfea. 
BRAIN'TREE, a town of North America, on the coad 
of Maffachufets, at the bottom of a fhallow bay. 
BRAIT,yi among jewellers, ufed fora rough diamond. 
BRAIT MARK, or Unter Brait, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Franconia, and county of Schwarzen- 
berg, on the-Mayne: twelve miles fouth-fouth-wed of 
Wurzburg, and thirty-fix fouth-wed of Bamberg. 
BR AITN'BRUG, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Audria : three miles-north of Steyregg. 
BRAKE, the preterite of break. —He thought it fuffi- 
cient to correft the multitude with diarp words, and brake 
out into this choleric fpeech. Knollcs. 
BRAKE, f [of uncertain etymology.] A thicket of 
brambles, or of thorns.-—A dog ufed daily to fetch meat, • 
and to carry the fame unto a blind madid, that lay in a 
brake without the town. Carew. — It is faid originally to 
mean fern, and is often ufed in botanical writings to de¬ 
note that plant. 
BRAKE, f An indrument for dreffing hemp or flax. 
The handle of a drip’s'pump. A baker’s kneading trough. 
A (harp bit or fnaffle for horfes. A fmith’s brake is a 
machine in which horfes, unwilling to be fliod, ai J e con- . 
fined during",that operation. 
BR A'KEL, a-town of Germany, in the circle of Wed- 
phalia, and • biftvopric of Paderburn, formerly imperial: 
three miles ead of Paderburn. 
BR A'KY, adj. Thorny; prickly; rough.—Redeem arts 
from their rough and braky feats, -where they lie hid and 
overgrown-with thorns, to a pure, open light, where they 
may take the eye, and may be taken by the hand. B. Jonfon. 
BR A'LIN, a town of Silefia, in the principality of Oels: 
feven miles ead of Wartenberg. 
BRAM, a river of Germany, which runs into the Stoer: 
ten miles above Itzehoa, in the duchy of Holdein. 
BR A'M A, or Bruma; a pagan deity of the Ead Indies. 
Lie is the drd perfon of a kind of trinity in their theology ; 
is the great progenitor of mankind ; and has created as 
many worlds as there are confiderable parts in his body. 
See Hjndoosta-n. 
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