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BRAU'BACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, and principality of Hdfe Darmftadt, 
fituated on the Rhine, oppofite Rees : ten miles weft of 
Nallau, and eighteen north-weft of Mentz. 
BRAVE, adj. \_brave, Fr.] Courageous; daring; bold; 
generous; high-fpirited: 
From armed foes to bring a royal prize, 
Shows your brave heart victorious as your eyes. Waller. 
Gallant;- having a noble mein; lofty ; graceful ; magni¬ 
ficent; grand; excellent; noble: it is an indeterminate 
word, nfed to exprefs the fuperabundance of any valuable 
quality in men or tilings: 
Let not old age difgrace my high defire, 
O heavenly foul, in human fhape contain’d! 
Old wood inflam’d doth, yield the bravcjl fire, 
When younger doth in fmoke his virtue lpend. Sidney. 
BRAVE, f. \_brave, Fr.] A heftor; a man daring be¬ 
yond decency or diferetion : 
Hot braves, like thee, mav fight, but know not well 
To manage this, the laft great (lake. Dry den. 
A boaft ; a challenge ; a defiance : 
There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace : 
We grant thou canft outfcold us. Shakefpeare. 
7 b BRAVE, v.a. To defy; to challenge; to fet at 
defiance; 
Like a rock unmov’d, a rock that braves 
The raging tem.peft.and the riling waves. Dryden. 
To carry a boafting appearance of.—Both particular per- 
fons and factions are apt enough to flatter themfelves, or, 
at lead, to brave that which they believe not. Bacon. 
BRA'VELY, adv. In a brave manner; courageoufly ; 
gallantly; fplendidlv : 
No fire, nor foe, nor fate, nor night, 
The .Trojan hero did affright, 
Who bravely twice renew’d the fight. Denham. 
BRA'VERY.yi Courage; magnanimity; generofity ; 
gallantry.—It denotes no great bravery of mind, to do that 
out of a defire of fame, which we could not be prompted 
to by a generous paflion for the glory of him that made 
us. Addifon. —Splendour; magnificence: 
Where all the bravery that the eye may fee, 
And all the happinefs that heart defire, 
Is to be found. Spcnfer. 
Show ; oftentation.—Let princes choofe minifters more 
fenlible of duty than of rifing, and fuch as love bufinefs, 
rather upon confidence than upon bravery. Bacon. —Bra¬ 
vado ; boaft.—There are thole that make it a point of 
bravery, to bid defiance to the oracles of divine revela¬ 
tion. L'Efl range. 
BRAU'LIO, or Bralio, one of the mountains called 
the Rhetian Alps, in the country of the Grifons, and on 
the borders of Tyrol, near the town of Bormio. 
BRAU'NAW, a town of Germany, in the circle and 
duchy of Bavaria, fituated on the Inn: it is fortified, and 
was formerly the relidence of the elector palatine of Bava¬ 
ria. It was ceded to the houfe of Auftria by the treaty 
of Tefchen, in the year 1779 : e >ght leagues fouth-weft: of 
Puffin, and three north-eaft of Burkanfen. 
BRAU'NECK, or Braunegg, a town of Germany, 
in the Tyrolefe, and bifliopric of Brixen: lixteen miles 
north-eaft of Brixen, and thirty-eight eaft of Tyrol. 
BRAUN'FELS, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Upper Rhine, belonging to the count Solms, with a 
caftle fortified in the ancient manner : five miles eaft of 
Wetzlar, and thirty north-north-eaft of Mentz. 
BRAUNS'BERG, a town of Pruflia, in the bifttopric 
of Ernteland, fituated on the Paffarage, which foon after 
difeharges itfelf into the Frifcheftaff. It was built in the 
year 1255, and received its name from Bruno, bifhop of 
Prague. In the year 1461, the inhabitants embraced the 
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proteftant religion, and drove out the popifh garrifon. It 
is a good trading town, by means of the river, which is 
navigable for fmall veffels. Thirty-two miles fouth-weft 
of Konigfberg. Lat.54. 20. N. Ion. 37. 53. E. Ferro. 
BRAUNS'BERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Wied Runkel: four miles north- 
eaft of New Wied. . », 
BRAUNS'DORF, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and circle of Erzgebirg : eleven miles 
north-eaft of Freyberg. 
BRAUNS'DORF, a town of Germany, in the archdu¬ 
chy of Auftria : fix miles eaft of Meiflau. 
BR AUNSELF'FEN, a town of Moravia, in the circle 
of Olmutz: fixteen miles north-north-eaft of Olmutz. 
BRAUNS'WEIG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and duchy of Holftein, which ferves as a 
fauxbourg to Kiel: one mile north of Kiel. 
BRA'VO, or North River, a river of North Ame¬ 
rica, which, after a courfe of 360 leagues, runs into the 
Gulf of Mexico. Lat. 26. o. N. Ion. So. 20. E. Ferro. 
BRA'VO, f. \_bravo, Ital.] A man who murders for hire: 
No bravoes here profefs the bloody trade, 
Nor is the church the murd’rer’s refuge made. Gay. 
BRAU'RON, a town of Attica, where Diana had a 
temple. The goddefs had three feftivals called Brauronia, 
celebrated once every fifth year by ten men who were calltd 
te^oTroioi. They facrificed a goat to the goddefs, and it was 
ufnal to fing one of the books of Homer’s Iliad. The moft 
remarkable that attended were young virgins in yellow 
gowns, confecrated to Diana. They were about ten years 
of age, and not under five, and therefore their confecra- 
tion was called S'er.a.revsn, from hxoc, decern-, and fometimes 
u^y.revsiv, as the virgins themfelves bore the name of 
bears, from this circumftance. There was a bear in one 
of the villages of Attica, fo tame, that he ate with the in¬ 
habitants, and played harmlefsly with them. This fami¬ 
liarity lafted long, tiil a young virgin treated the animal 
too roughly, and was killed by it. The virgin’s brothers 
killed the bear, and the country was foon after vifited by 
a peftilence. The oracle was confulted, and the plague 
removed by confecrating virgins to the fervice of Diana. 
This was fo faithfully obferved, that no woman in Athens 
was ever married before a previous confecration to the 
goddefs. The ftatue of Diana of Tauris, which had been 
brought into Greece by Iphigenia, was preferved in the 
town of Brauron. Xerxes carried it away when he inva¬ 
ded Greece. Pauf. 8. Strab. 9. 
BRAUWEI'LER, a town and abbey of Germany, in 
the circle of the Lower Rhine, and electorate of Cologn: 
feven miles weft-north-weft of Cologn. 
BRAUX, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ardennes : five miles north of Charleville. 
BRAWAL'LA-HEIDE, a plain of Sweden, in the 
province of Smaland ; where the women of Smaland, in 
the abfence of their huibands, defeated an army of Danes. 
To BRAWL, v.n. \_brouiller, or brauler, Fr.] To quar¬ 
rel noifily and indecently.-—Leave all noify contefts, all 
immodeft clamours, brawling language, and efpecially all 
perfonal lcandal and feurrility, to the meaneft part of the 
vulgar world. Watts .—To fpeak loud and indecently : 
His divifions, as the times do brawl, 
Are in three heads; one pow’r againft the French, 
And one againft Glendower. Shakefpeare . 
To make a noife. This is little nfed. 
BRAWL, J. Quarrel ; noife'; feurrility : 
Never fince that middle fuminer’s fpring 
Met we on hill, in dale, foreft, or mead, 
But with thy brawls thou haft difturb’d our fport. Shake/. 
BRAW'LER, yi A wrangler; a quarrelfome, noify, 
fellow. — An advocate may incur the cenfure of the court, 
for being a brawler in court, on jntrpofe to lengthen out 
the caule. Ay life. 
BRAWN, 
