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of melons. They are inclofurcs about fix or feven feet 
high, made of draw, fupported by flakes fixed into the 
ground, and faftened together with willow-twigs, or iron- 
wire. 
BRI'ZEMBOURG, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Ctiarente, and chief place of a canton, 
in the dillriift of St. Jean d’Angely : two leagues and a 
half fouth of St. Jean d’Angely, and two and a half north- 
caft of Saintes. 
BRI'ZEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and Middle Mark of Brandenburg : four leagues 
north of Wittenberg. 
BRI'ZO, the goddefs of deep, to whom divine honours 
were paid at Delos. She prefided over diearns. 
BROACH , f. \_broche, Fr.] A fpit.—He was taken into 
fervice to a bale office in his kitchen; fo that he turned a 
broach , that had worn a crown. Bacon .—A large packing- 
needle ; an awl, or bodkin. A mulical inftrume.nt, the 
founds of which are made by turning round a handle. 
With hunters, a (tart of the head of a young flag, grow¬ 
ing ffiarp like the end of a fpit. 
In Scotland, broach, broche, or broteke, is the name of a 
kind of buckle which the Highlanders life, like the fibula 
of the Romans, to fallen their veil. They are ufually 
made of filver; of a round figure ; with a tongue eroding 
its diameter, to fallen the folds of the garment; fometimes 
with two tongues, one on each fide of a crofs-bar in the 
middle. There are preferved, in feveral families, ancient 
brotches of very elegant workmanfhip, aim richly orna¬ 
mented. Some of them are inferibed with names, to which 
particular virtues tiled to be attributed; others are fur- 
nilhed with receptacles for relics, fuppofed to preferve 
them from harm. So that thefe brotchesfcem to have been 
worn not only for ufe, but as amulets. One or two of this 
fort are figured and deferibed by Mr. Pennant, Tour in 
Scotl. i. 90. iii. 14. 
To BROACH, v. a. To fpit ; to pierce as with a fpit. 
>—He felled men as one would mow hay, and fometimes 
broached a great number of them upon his pike, asone would 
carry little birds fpitted upon a flick. HakewiU .—To pierce 
a veffel in order to draw the liquor ; to tap. To open any 
flore.—You ffiall want neither weapons,■ victuals, noraid; 
I will open the old armouries, I will broach my (lore, and 
bring forth my flores. Kndlles. —To let out any thing : 
And blood was ready to be broach'd , 
When Hudibras in hafle approach’d. Hudibras, 
To give out, or utter any thing.—Thofe who were the 
chief inftrumeats of raifing the noife, made ufe of thofe 
very opinions ihemfelves had broached, for arguments to 
prove that the change of minilters was dangerous. Swift. 
BROACH'ER,*/ A fpit: 
The youth approach’d the fire, and, as it burn’d, 
On five lharp broachers rank’d, the road they turn’d. Dryd. 
An opener, or ntterer of any thing ; the find author.— 
There is much pride and vanity in the aifeiSlation of being 
the firft broacher of an opinion. L’Efirange. 
BROAD, adj. [brad y Sax.] Wide; extended in breadth, 
diftinguifhed from length ; riot narrow : 
He launch’d the fiery bolt from pole to pole, 
Broad burfl the light’nings, deep the thunders roll. Pope. 
Large.—To keep him at a diflance from falfehood, and 
cunning, which has always a brodd mixture of falfehood; 
this is tiie fitted preparation of a child for wifdom. locke. 
— Clear; open; not fiveltered ; not affording concealment. 
—It no longer feeks the (belter of light and darkriefs, but 
appears in the broadejl light. Decay of Piety. _Grofs- 
coarle: 
Room for my lord! three jockeys in his train ; 
Six luintfmen with a fliout precede his chair; 
He-grins, and looks broad nonfenfe with a dare. Pope. 
Obfcene; fulfome ; tending to obfeenity.—As chade and 
rnoded as he is edeemed, it cannot be denied but in- fome 
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places he is bread and fulfome. Dryden. —Bold ; not deli¬ 
cate; not referved.—Who can fpeak broader than he that 
has no houfe to put his head in? Such may rail againd 
great buildings. Shakefpeare. 
Broad as long. Equal upon the whole.—The mo¬ 
bile are ftill for levelling; that is to fay, for advancing 
themfelves : for it is as broad as long whether they rife to 
others, or bring others down to them. L'Ejlrange. 
BROAD, a river of South Carolina, formed by the 
union of feveral fmaller rivers, which, about eight miles 
north-wed from Columbia, joins the Saluda, and with it 
forms the Cangaree. 
BROAD'CAST,/. as oppofed to the drill hiifbandry, 
or fowing with the drill-plough, denotes the method of 
cultivating corn, &c. by fcattering the feed over the ground 
at large, thence laid to be fown in broadcad. This is call¬ 
ed the old hijbandry, to didinguiffi it from the drill, horfe- 
hoeing, or new hufbandry. See Husbandry. 
BROAD-CLOTH,/. The firft cloths, which are broad, 
as oppofed to feconds, which are narrow ; broad-cloths are 
the fined fabric of the clothing manufaflories. 
To BROAD'EN, v. n. To grow broad : 
Low walks the fun, and broadens by degrees, 
Jud o’er the verge of day. Thomjon. 
BROAD-EYED, adj. Having a wide furvey: 
In defpite of broad-eyed watchful day, 
I would into thy bolbm pour my thoughts : 
But, all l I will not. Shakefpeare. 
BROADHA'VEN, a bay of the Atlantic, on the wed 
of Ireland, and north-wed coafl of the county of Mayo. 
Lat. 54. 17. N. Ion. 9. 42. W. Greenwich. 
BROAD-LEAVED, adj. Having broad leaves.—Nar¬ 
row and broad-leaved Cyprus grafs. Woodward. 
BROAD'LEY, a-town of Poland, in the principality 
of Belcz : forty-eight miles ead of Belcz. 
BROAD'LY, adv. In a broad manner. 
BROAD'NESS,yi Breadth; extent from fide to fide. 
Coarfenefs ; fulfomenefs .—1 have ufed the Cleaned meta¬ 
phor I could find, to palliate the broadnefis of the meaning. 
Dryden. 
BROAD-SHOULDERED, adj. Having a large fpace 
between the fhoulders.—I am ,a tall, broad-Jhouldered, im¬ 
pudent, black, fellow ; and, as I thought, every way qua¬ 
lified for a rich widow. SpeBator. 
BROAD'SIDE,/ The fide of a fhip, didintt: from the 
head or dern: 
From vafler hopes than this he feem’d to fall,. 
That durd attempt the Britiffi admiral: 
From her broadfidcs a ruder flame is thrown, 
Than from the fiery .chariot of the fun. Waller. 
The volley of ffiot fired at once from the fide of a fhip. 
In printing, a fheet of paper containing one large page. 
BROAD'SWORD, ft. A cutting fword, with a broad 
blade.—He, in fighting a duel, was run through the thigh 
with a broad [word. Wijcman. 
BROAD'WISE, adv. According to the diredlion of the 
breadth.—If one fhould, with his hand, thruft a piece of 
iron broadwfie againd the flat ceiling ot his chamber, the 
iron would not fall as long as the force of the hand perfe- 
veres to prefs againd it. Boyle. 
BRO'BACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and electorate., of Treves: fifteen miles 
fouth-ead of Treves. 
BROC (Le), a town of France, in the department of 
the Var, and chief place of a canton, in the didrifl of St. 
Paul : two leagues north of St. Paul, and one and a half 
north-north-ead of Vence. 
BROCA'DE, /. [brocado. Span.] A duff of gold, fil¬ 
ver, or (ilk, raifedand enriched with flowers, foliages, and 
other ornaments, according to the fancy of the manufaflu- 
rers. Formerly the word fignified only a duff, wove all of 
gold, both in the warp and in the woof, or all of filver, or 
of both mixed together ; thence it palled to thofe ol duffs 
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