BRA 
BRAWN,/, [of uncertain etymology. ] The flefliy or 
mufculous part of the body : 
But moft their looks on the black monarch bend, 
' His riling mufcles and his brawn commend; 
His double biting ax, and beamy fpear, 
Each alking a gigantic force to rear. Dryden, 
The arm, fo called from its being mufculous: 
I’ll hide my filver beard in a gold beaver, 
And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn. Shakefp. 
Bulk; mufcular ftrength : 
The boift’rous hands are then of life, when I, 
With this-direfling head, thofe hands apply ; 
Brawn without brain is thine. Dryden. 
The flefl'i. of a boar.—The bed age for the boar is from 
two to five years, at which time it is belt to geld him, or 
fell him for brawn. Mortimer. —A boar, of which brawn is 
ufually made. The method of preparing brawn is as fol¬ 
lows.; the boar being killed, it is the flitches only that 
are made into brawn ; the bones of which are to be taken 
out, and then the Hefii fprinkled with fait, and laid in a 
tray, that the blood may drain off: then it is to be failed 
again, and rolled up as hard as poffible. The length of 
the collar of brawn fhould be as much as one fide of the 
boar will bear, fo that when rolled up it will be nine or 
ten inches in diameter. When thus rolled up, it is to be 
bailed in a copper till it is quite tender; then fet it by 
till it is cold, and put it into the following pickle. To 
every gallon of water, put a handful or two of fait, and 
as much wheat-bran : boil them together, then drain the 
bran as clear as poffible from the liquor ; and, when quite 
. cold, put the brawn into it. 
BRAW'NER, /. A boar killed for the table : 
At Chriftmas time be cafeful of your fame, 
See the old tenant’s table be the lame ; 
Then if you would fend up the brawner head, 
Sweet rofemary and bay^ around it fpread. King. 
BRAW'NINESS,/. Strength; hardinefs.—This brawni- 
nefs and infenfibility of mind, is the befl armour againft 
the common evils and accidents of life. Locke. 
BRAW'NY, adj. Mufculous; flefhy; bulky; of great 
mulcles and ftrength : 
The brawny fool, who did his vigour boaft, 
In that prefuming confidence was loft. Dryden. 
To BRAY, v. a. [bracan, Sax. braier , Fr.] To pound, 
or grind fmall; 
I’ll burft him; I will bray 
His bones as in a mortar. Chapman. 
To BRAY, v. n. \_broire, Fr. barrio , Eat.] To make a. 
nolle las an afs. lo make an offenfive, harih, or difagree- 
able, noife: 
Arms on armour clafhing, bray'd 
Horrible difeord. Milton. 
BRAY,/. Voice of au afs; harih found: 
Boift’rous untun’d drums, 
And harfh refounding trumpets dreadful bray. Shakefp. 
BRAY (Sir Reginald), a celebrated architeft and po¬ 
litician, was the fecond fon of Sir Richard Bray, one of 
the privy council to Henry VI. Sir Reginald wasinftru- 
mental in the advancement of Henry VII. to the throne 
of England ; and was greatly in the favour of that prince, 
who bellowed honours and wealth upon him. His fkill in 
architedlure appears from Henry VII.’$ chapel at Weft- 
minffer, and the chapel of St. George at Windfor, as he 
had a principal concernand direction in the buildingof the 
former, and the finilhingand bringing to perfection the lat¬ 
ter, to which he was alfo a liberal benefactor. He died in 
1501 ; and was interred in the above chapel at Windlor, 
probably under the done where lies Dr.Waterland ; for, on 
opening the vault for that gentleman, who died in 1740, a 
leaden coffin of ancient form wa) found, which, by other 
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appearances, was judged to be that of Sir Reginald, and 
was, by order of the dean, immediately arched over. 
BRAY (Thomas), an eminent and learned divine, born 
at Marton, in Shropfhire, in 1656, and educated at Ox¬ 
ford. He was prefented to the vicarage of Over-Whitacre, 
in Warwicklhire ; and, in 1690, to the redtory of Sheldon, 
where he compofed his Catechetical Lediires ; which pro¬ 
cured him fuch reputation, that Dr. Compton, bilhop of 
London, chofe him as a proper perfon to model the infant 
church of Maryland, and eftabliflt it upon a (olid foun¬ 
dation, and for that purpofe he was inverted with the office 
of commiflary. He now engaged in feveral noble under¬ 
takings. He procured fums to be railed for purchafihg 
fmall libraries for the life of the poor minifters in th& 
feveral parts of the plantations : and, the better to pro¬ 
mote this defign, he publifited two books; one intitled 
Bibliotheca Parochialis, or a fcheme of fuch theological 
and other heads as feem requifite to be perilled or occa- 
fionally confulted by the clergy ; the other, Apoftolicab 
Charity, its nature and excellency confidered. He endea¬ 
voured to'get a fund eftablifiied’for the propagation of the 
gofpel, efpecially among* the uncultivated Indians; and 
by this means a patent was obtained for erecting the cor¬ 
poration called The Society for the Propagation of the 
Gofpel. Pie alfo procured relief for prifoners ; and formed 
the plan for the fociety for the reformation of manners, 
charity-fchools, &C-. He wrote, 1. His Martyrology, or 
papal ufurpation, in one volume folio ; 2. Direftorium 
Milfionarium ; and other works. This excellent man died 
in 173O, aged feventy-three. 
BRAY, a fmall fea-port of Ireland, on the eart coart, 
in St. George’s Channel, with a harbour for fmall veflels, 
much re for ted to for fea-bathing. It is thirteen miles north 
ofWicklow. Eat. 53. 12. N. Ion. 6. 6. W. Greenwich. 
BRAY-BANK, a fand-bank in St. George’s Channel, 
near the eaft coart of Ireland : fix miles eart of Bray-Head. 
, BRAY'ER, J. One that brays like an afs: 
Hold! cried the queen; a cat-call each fliall win; 
Equal your merits, equal is your din ! s 
But, that this well-difputed game may end, 
Sound forth, my braycrsl and the welkin rend. Pope. 
[With printers; from to bray, or beat.'] An inftrument to 
temper the ink. 
BRAY-HEAD, a cape on the eaft coaft of Ireland, in 
the county of Wicklow. Lat. 53. 12. N. Ion. 6. 5. W, 
Greenwich. 
BRAYEE,/ among fportfmen, in hawking, a piqce of 
leather flit to put upon the hawk’s wing, to tie it up. 
BRAY-SUR-SEINE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Seine and Marne, and chief place of a canton, 
in the dirtri£l of Provins, fituated on the Seine. Three 
leagues fouth of Provins, and eight eaft of Melun. 
BRAY-SUR-SOMME, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Somme, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftriiSt of Peronne, fituated on the Somme, Three 
leagues weft of Peronne, and five and a half eaft-north-cart 
of Amiens. 
BRAZE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Cote d’Or: two leagues from Dijon. 
To BRAZE, v. a. [from brafs.] To folder with brafs.— 
If the nut be not to be cart in brafs, but only hath a worm 
braced into it, this nicenefs is not fo abfolutely neceffary, 
becaufe that worm is firft turned up, and bowed into the 
grooves ot the fpindle ; and you may try that before it is 
brazed in the nut. Moxon. —To harden to impudence: 
If damned cuftom hath not braz’d it fo, 
That it is proof and bulwark againft fenfe. Shakcfpcarc. 
BRA'ZEN, adj. Made of brafs. It was anciently and 
properly written brafen : 
A bough his brazen helmet did fuftain; 
His heavier arms lay fcattcr’d on the plain. Dryden. 
Proceeding from brafs: a poetical ufe. Impudent. 
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