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BR AND'LECUT, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Bentheim : three miles fouth- 
Ibuth-eaft of Northorn. 
BRAN'DO, a town of the ifland of Corfica: fix miles 
north of Baftia. 
BRAN'DOM, a market-town in Suffolk, pleafantly fitit- 
ated on a river called the. Letter Oufe, navigable from Lynn 
to Thetford, which divides the counties of Suffolk and 
Norfolk. This river affords plenty of fifh ; and the coun¬ 
try around plenty of game. It lies between Newmarket 
and Swaffham, and has a bridge o.ver the Oufe, and a good 
harbour, with a ferry, about one mile from the bridge, for 
conveying goods to and from the ifle of Ely. It gave a 
lord-mayor to London, anno 1445, to wit, Sir Simon Eyre, 
draper, who built Leadenhall for the ufe of the city, and 
left 5000 marks, a very great fum in thofe days, to chari¬ 
table ufes. Brandon is a very confiderable thoroughfare 
from London to Lynn, Swaffham, and the lower parts of 
Norfolk. It is diflant from Lynn twenty-four miles; Stoke, 
ten; Swaffham, fifteen; Thetford, fix; Bury, fifteen; 
Mildenhall, ten; Newmarket, eighteen; and feventy-eight 
from London. Market on Thurfday ; fairs, Feb. 14, June 
11, Nov. 11; and at Bromhill, Nov. 30, is a confiderable 
fair for wool: there are feveral other fairs, called coopers 
or hoop fairs, the days of which are uncertain. There are 
very confiderable returns to this town for corn, malt, coals, 
deals, iron, fait, bricks, and tiles. There are many very 
extenfive rabbit-warrens near the town ; the rabbits are 
fent to the London markets by carriers for that purpofe, 
who travel with great expedition. This town gives the 
title of Brandon to his grace the duke of Hamilton. 
BRAN'DON, a town of the United States of America, 
in Vermont, on the Otter Creek : ten miles N. of Rutland. 
BRAN'DON, mountains of Ireland, in the county of 
Kerry : feven miles north of Dingle. 
BRAN'DON BAY, a bay on the weftem coaft: of Ire¬ 
land, between Tralee Bay and Brandon Head. 
BRAN'DON HEAD, a cape of Ireland, on the weft- 
ern coaft of the county of Kilkenny : eleven miles north 
of Dingle. Lat. 52. 17. N. Ion. to. 1. W. Greenwich. 
BRAN'DON HILL, a mountain of Ireland, in the 
county of Kilkenny: feven miles eaft of Thomaftown. 
BRAND'RITH, f. A trevet or iron ftand, whereon to 
fet a veffel on the fire. Alfo, among builders, the fence 
or rail placed round the mouth of a well. 
BRANDT (Gerard), a learned divine of the reformed 
religion, born at Amfterdam in 1626, and fucceftively mi- 
nifter in feveral places of the Netherlands. He wrote fome 
works which are efteemed, particularly the Hiftory of the 
Reformation of the Netherlands, 4 vols. 4to ; and the Life 
of Admiral Ruyter, both written in the Flemifh tongue. 
He died at Rotterdam in 1685. 
BRAN'DY, J'. [ brantewein , Tent, to burn, whence the 
French have borrowed the word brandevin.'] An ardent 
fpirit diddled from wine. The greateft quantities are 
made in Languedoc, where this manufacture, upon the 
whole fo pernicious to fociety, commenced. It is obtained 
by diftilladon in the ufual method, by a ftill, which con¬ 
tains five or fix quintals of wine, and has a capital and 
worm-tub applied. Its peculiar flavour depends, no doubt, 
on the nature of the volatile principles, or effential oil, 
which come over along with it, and likewife, in fome mea- 
lure, upon the management of the fire, the wood of the 
calk in which it is kept, &c. The chief brandies, exclu- 
five of thofe of Languedoc, come from Cogniac, Rochelle, 
Bom d-aux, Orleans, the ifie of Rhe, PoiCtou, Nantz, Tou- 
raine.Champaigne, Burgundy, and Anjou. It is laid that 
our rcClifiers in England imitate the flavour of brandy, by 
adding a fmall proportion of nitrous add to the fpirit of 
malt or melaffes. See Distillation. 
BRAN'D.YWINE-CREEK, a place on the river De¬ 
laware, near Newcaltle, in the ftate of Pennsylvania, where 
the Americans were defeated by the Britifh troops, on the 
nth of September, 1777. They had about 1000 killed 
and wounded, and about 400 made prifoners. Tfiis battle 
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occafioned the lofs of Philadelphia, which general Howe 
entered on the 26th of September. 
BRANE, a river of South Wales, which runs into the 
Towey, near Llanymiddovrey, in Caermarthendure. 
BRANE, a river of South Wales, which runs into the 
Ufke, three miles weft of Brecknock. 
BRANG, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Vol- 
hynia : forty-four miles fouth-weft of Lucko. 
BRAN'GES, a town of France, in the department of 
tha Saone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Louhans: half a league north-weft of Louhans. 
BRAN'CLE,/! [uncertainly derived.] Squabble; wran¬ 
gle; litigious conteft.—The payment of tythes is fubjedl 
to many frauds, brangles, and other difficulties, not only' 
from papifts and diflenters, but even from thofe who pro- 
fefs themfelves proteftants. Swift. 
To BR AN'GLE, v. n. To wrangle; to fquabble—When 
polite converfing ftuill be improved, company will be no 
longer peftered with dull ftory-tellers, nor bravgling dif- 
puters. Swift. 
BRAN'GLEMENT, f. The fame with brangk. 
BRANI'TS, a town of Silella, in the principality of 
Oppau : four miles fouth-eaft of J.agerndorf. 
BRANK, f. A trivial name of buckwheat. 
BRANKYR'KA, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Sudermania. 
BRAN'LIN,yi in ichthyology, the trivial name of a 
fpecies of falmon. 
BRAN'NE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gironde, and chief place of a canton, in the diltridt 
of Libourne : two leagues foutji of Libourne. 
BRANNODU'NUM (Notitiae), with a garrifon of the 
Equites Dalmatia? ; a town of Britain, on the Sinus Me- 
taris: now Brancafter, in Norfolk, on the Wafttes. 
BRAN'NY, adj. Having the appearance of bran.—It 
became ferpiginous, and was, when 1 faw it, covered with 
white branny feales. IViftman. 
BRANOGE'NIUM, or Branonium, a town of the 
Coritani, a people in the heart of Britain : from the dif- 
tances of the Itinerary, Camden fuppofes it fo be Worcefter. 
BRAN'SEE, a fmall illand of Denmark, in the Little 
Belt: five miles weft-north-weft from Aliens. 
BRANSK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Bielfk : fixteen miles weft of Bielik. 
BRANT, a river of North Wales, in the ifie of Angle- 
fea, which runs into the Menai, about three miles fouth 
from Neuburgh. 
BRANT, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Auftria: eight miles eaft of Zwetl. 
BRANTO'ME, a town of France, in the department 
of the Dordogne, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridl of Perigueux: three leagues and a half north of 
Perigueux. 
BRA'RUP, a fmall Hland of Denmark, in the Gulf of 
Schley : ten miles eaft-north-eaft of Slefwick. 
BRAS, a town of France, in the department of the Var, 
and chief place of a canton, in the diftridf of St. Maximin : 
four miles eaft-north-eaft of St. Maximin. 
BRAS'CHEN, a tovvn of Germany, in rhe circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and duchy of Crollen : five miles louth-fouth- 
eaft of Croffen. 
BRASCHEV'SKOI, afortrefs of Siberia, on the Irtifch: 
fixty miles ealt of Semipolatnoi. 
BRA'SEN, adj. Made of brafs. It is now lefs pro¬ 
perly written, according to the pronunciation, brazen. 
BRA'SIDA,/. An anniverfary folemnity at Sparta, in 
memory of Bralidas, a Lacedemonian, famous for his at- 
chievemenrs in battle. It was celebrated with facrifices 
and games, wherein none were permitted to contend but 
freeborn Spartans. 
BRA'SIDAS, a celebrated general of the Lacedemo¬ 
nians, about 424 years before the birth of Chrift. He 
defeated the Athenians by land and fea, took many places, 
and rendered his country formidable to all the neighbour¬ 
ing Hates. He defeated the Athenians on their attempting 
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