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BR I'NISH, adj. Having the tafte of brine; fait: 
Nero would be tainted with remorfe 
To hear and fee her brinijli tears. Shahejpeare. 
BRI'NISHNESS,/. Saltnefs; tendency to faltnefs. 
BRINK,/, [brink, Dan.] The edge of any place, as of 
a precipice or a river : 
Th’ amazed flames (land gather’d in a heap, 
And from the precipice’s brink retire. 
Afraid to venture on fo large a leap. Dryden. 
BRINKE, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia, and bifhopric of Ofnabruck: fixteen miles fouth- 
eaft of Ofnabruck. 
BRINN. See Brush. 
BRINON' les ALLEMA'NS, a town of France, in 
the department of the Nievre, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftriCt of Clamecy : ten miles fouth Clamecy. 
BRINON' l’ARCHEVE'QUE, a town of Frartce, in 
the department of the Yonne, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of St. Florentin : four leagues north 
of Aitxerre, one and a half weft of St. Florentin. 
BRINS, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bolefiaw, 
three miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Gabl. 
BRI'NY. adj. Salt.—A muriatic or briny tafte feems 
to be produced by a mixture of an acid and alkaline fait; 
forfpiritof fait and fait of tartar, mixed, produce a fait 
like fea-falt. Arbuthnot .' 
BRION', a town of France, in the department of the 
Two Sevres, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt 
of Thouars : one league and a half north of Thouars. 
BRION', a town of France, in the department of the 
Lozerre, and chief place of a,canton, in the diftriCt of St. 
Chely d’Apcher.: three leagues weft-fouth-weft St. Chely. 
BRION'NE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of 
Bernay: four leagues fouth-eaft of Pont Audemer, and 
three and a half north-north-eaft of Bernay. 
BRION'NI, a {mall iftand in the Gulf .of Venice, near 
the coaft of Iftria. Eat. 45.10. N. Ion. 31.37. E. Ferro. 
BRl'ONY, f. in botany. SeeBRYO'NiA. 
BRIO'RD, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ain, ten miles fouth of Belley. 
BRIOSTOM'BOS, or Brios-Tombos, a town of 
France, in the department of the Oife: ten miles north of 
Beauvais. 
BRIOU', a town of France, in the department of the 
Two Sevres, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt 
of Melle : two leagues fouth-weft of Melle, and four and 
three-quarters fouth-eaft of Niort. 
BRIOU'DE, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftriCt, in the department of the Upper Loire, fituated 
©r; the Allier. It contains about 3000inhabitants; and is 
ieven leagues north-north-eaft of St. Flour, and eight and 
a half north-weft of le Puy. Lat. 45.17. N. Ion. 21.3. 
E. Ferro. 
BRIOU'ZE, a town of France, in the department of 
Orne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of Ar- 
gentan : four leagues north-eaft of Domfront, and four 
and a half weft of Argentan. 
BRI'QJtJEBEC, a town of France, in the department 
,©f the Channel, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt 
of Valognes : three leagues and a quarter fouth of Cher- 
burg, and two and a quarter weft of Valognes. 
BRIQJJENAY', a town of France in the department 
of the Ardennes, and chief place of a canton, in the dif¬ 
triCt of Grandpre: four miles north of Grandpre. 
BRIQUE'RAS, a tovyn in Piedmont, four leagues fouth 
of Pignerol. 
BRI'SACH (Old), a town of Germany, formerly the 
capital of,the Brifgaw and Imperial ; now belonging to the 
hcufe of Auftria. It was taken by the French in 1638 ; 
they kept pofleflion of it till the year 1700, when they re¬ 
stored it to the emperor, after deftroying a (lone bridge 
built over the Rhine ; and in 1703 the fortifications were 
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deftroyed. In the year 1704 the French took it again, as 
was fuppofed, by treachery ; for count d’Arce, the go¬ 
vernor, was condemned to be beheaded, and all the offi¬ 
cers who ftgned the capitulation were puniftied. The ri¬ 
ver Rhine is now pafted here by a bridge of boats. It is 
nine leagues north of Bale. 
BRI'SACH (New), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Rhine, fituated about a mile from the 
weft fide of the Rhine, oppofite Old Brifac, fortified by 
M. Vauban : nine leagues north of Bale, and two and a 
half fouth-eaft of Colmar. 
BRISA'GO, a town of Italy, in the Milanefe, on the 
borders of the Swifj bailiwics, on the Lake Major: five 
miles fouth of Locarno. 
BRISAU', a town of Moravia, in the circle of Olmulz, 
fix miles fouth of Zwitau. 
BRI'SEIS, otherwife called Hippodamia, the daughter 
of Brifes prieft of Jupiter, and wife of Mynes king of 
Lyrnefla. After Achilles had taken that city, and killed 
her hufband, (lie became his captive. Thaf_ Jiero loved 
her tenderly; but, Agamemnon taking her from him, /he 
became the accidental caufe of numberlefs diforders in the 
Grecian army. Achilles, enraged, retired to his tent; 
and, till the death of Patroclus, refuted to fight againft 
the Trojans. The refentment of this prince is finely paint¬ 
ed in the Iliad. Brifeis was ever faithful to Achilles; and, 
when Agamemnon reftored her to him, he fwore he had 
never violated her chaftity. 
BRISEL'LO. See Bersello. 
BRI'SES, high-prielt of Jupiter, and father of Brifeis. 
Some fay he invented the manner of extracting honey, but 
others fay it was Ariftteus. 
BRISE'US, a furnanre of Bacchus, from his nurfe of 
the fame name, or his temple at Brifa, a promontory of 
Lefbos. Perjius. 
BRIS'GAW, a country of Germany, in the circle of 
Suabia, fituated on the eaft fide of the Rhine, by which 
it is feparated from France. The marquis of Baden pof- 
fefles a portion, but the principal part belongs to the houfe 
of Auftria. Friburg is the capital. 
BRISl'ACUS MONS, anciently a town ontherightor 
eaft fide of the Rhine. Now Brifach : fituate on a round 
hill; a fortified town of Suabia, and diftinguifhed by the 
name of Old Brifach. 
BRI'SICH, oi Brey'sxch, a town of Germany,.iii the 
circle of Weftphalia, and duchy of Juliers: fixteen miles 
north-north-weft of Coblentz. 
BRISIGUE'LA, a town of Italy, in the province of 
Romagna, belonging to the ftate of the church : fix miles 
from Fayenza. 
BRISITl'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Capitanata: eleven miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Manfredona. 
BRISK, adj. [bnfque, Fr.] Lively; vivacious; gay; 
fprightly: applied to men. 
Pr’ythee, die, and fet me free, 
Or elfe be 
Kind and brijk and gay, like me. Denham. 
Powerful; fpirituous: 
Our nature here is not unlike our wine : 
Some forts, when old, continue brijk and fine. Denham . 
Vivid ; bright. This is not ujed. —ObjeCts appeared much 
darker, becaufe my inftrument was overcharged; had it 
magnified thirty or twenty-five times, it had made the ob¬ 
ject appear more brijk and pleafant. Newton. 
BRISK, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and Ucker Mark of Brandenburgh: eight miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Befkow. 
To BRISK up, v. n. To come up brifkly. 
BRIS'KET,/. \_brichet, Fr. ] The breaft of an animal. 
—See that none of the wool be wanting, that their gums 
be red, teeth white and even, and the brijket (kin red. 
Mortimer, 
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