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gures of needle-work.—A robe, and a hr older cd coaf, and 
a girdle. Exodus. 
BROI'DERY, f. Embroidery; flower- v. ode ; addition¬ 
al ornaments wrought upon cloth : 
The golden broidery tender Milfcah wove, 
The bread to Kenna facred, and to love. Tichell. 
BROIL,/ i 'brbuilkr, Fr.] A tumult; a quarrel : 
Rude were their revels, and obfeene their joys; 
The broils of drunkards, and the lud of boys. Granville. 
To BROIL, v.a. [ bruler. , Fr.] To drefs or co.ok by lay¬ 
ing on the coals, or before the fire: 
Some drip the Ikin, fome portion out the fpoil. 
Some on the fire the reeking entrails broil. Dryden. 
To BROIL, v. n. To be in heat.—Long ere now all the 
planets and comets had been broiling in the fun, had the 
world laded from all eternity. Cheyne. 
BROJO CASTRA, a town of European Turkey, in 
Livadia, twenty-two miles north of Livadia. 
To BROKE, v. n. [of uncertain etymology. Skinner 
feems inclined to derive it from To break, becaufe broken 
men turn tailors or brokers. Cafaubon, from 7 r^a.rhn/. 
Skinner thinks, again, that it may be contracted from pro¬ 
curer. Mr. Lye more probably deduces it from bmccan, 
Sax. to be bufy ] To tranfaft bufinefs for others, or by 
others, it is ufed generally in reproach : 
He brakes with all that can, in ftich a fuit, 
Corrupt the tender honour of a maid. Shahefpeare. 
BROKE, or Brooke (Sir Robert), lord chief judice 
of the common pleas, was the fon of Thomas Broke, Efq. 
of -Claverly in Shroplhire, and educated at Oxford ; from 
whence he removed to the Middle Temple, and foon be¬ 
came a very eminent lawyer. In the year 1542, he was 
chofen funitrier.reader. .In 1552, he was made ferjeant- 
at-law ; and the year following (firft of queen Mary), lord 
chief judicc of the common pleas; about which time he 
received the honour of knighthood. Stow fays he was re¬ 
corder of London and fpeaker of the houfe of commons ; 
which is confirmed by a manufeript in the Afhmolean li¬ 
brary. He died and was buried at Claverly, the place of 
his nativity, in 1558. Wood gives him the character of a 
great lawyer and an upright judge. His works are, 1. An 
Abdrait of the Year-Books till the Time of Queen Mary. 
2. Certain Cafes adjudged in the Reign of Henry VIII. 
Edward VI. and Queen Mary. 3. Reading on the Statute 
of Limitations, 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2. 
BRO'KEN, [particip. paflbof break.]— Preserve men’s 
wits from being broken with the very bent of fo long at¬ 
tention. Hooker. 
BRO'KEN, one of the Harz mountains of Hanover in 
Germany, celebrated for refle&ing to the eye of a fpefta- 
tor a colodal figure, called the fpeElre of the Broken. The 
particulars of this extraordinary phenomenon, as given by 
J. L. Jordan, are explained in Gmelin’s Journal of Nature, 
publidied at Gottingen, in 1798, and are as follow :. 
“ The fird time I was deceived by this atmolpheric phe¬ 
nomenon, I had clambered up to the fummit of the Bro¬ 
ken, very early in the morning, in order to wait for the 
beautiful view of the fun riling in the ead. The heavens 
were already dreaked with red ; the fun was jud appearing 
above the horizon in full majedy, and the mod perfedt fe- 
renity prevailed, when the other Harz mountains in the 
fouth-vved, towards the Worm mountains, lying under the 
Broken, began to be covered by thick clouds. Afcending 
at that moment the granite rocks called the Teufelfkanzel, 
there appeared before me, though at a great didance, the 
gigantic figure of a man, as if danding on a large pedef- 
tal. But fcarcely had I difeovered it when it began to 
difappear; the clouds funk down fpeedily and expanded, 
and I faw the phenomenon no more. The fecond time, 
however, 1 faw this fpedtre fo die what more didimdly, a 
‘little below the fummit of the Broken, and near the Hein- 
jrichlhbhe, as J was looking at the fun rifing about four 
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o’clock in the morning. The weather was rather tempef- 
tuous ; the fky towards the level country was pretty clear, 
but the Harz mountains had attracted feveral thick clouds, 
which had been hovering around them, and which begin¬ 
ning to fettle on the Broken condned the profpeft. In 
thefe clouds, foon after the rifing of the fun, I faw my 
own lhadow, of a mondrous fize, move itfelf for a couple 
of feconds exactly as I moved ; but I was foon involved 
in clouds, ahd the phenomenon difappeared. 
“ It is impodible to fee this phenomenon, excf-pt when 
the fun is at fuch an altitude'as to throw his rays upon the 
body in a horizontal direction ; for, if he is higher, the 
fhadow is thrown rather under the body than before it. In 
the month of September, 1798, as I was making a tour 
through the Harz, I found an excellent account and expla¬ 
nation of this phenomenon, as feen by M. Haue, on the 
23d of May, 1797, in his diary of anexcurfion to the Bro¬ 
ken mountain. I fhall therefore take the liberty of trail - 
feribing it. ‘ After having been here for the thirtieth 
time, (fays Mr. Haue,) and, beddes other objefts of my 
attention, having procured information refpefting the 
above-mentioned atmofpheric phenomenon, I was at length 
fo fortunate as to have the pleafure of feeing it. The fun 
rofe about four o’clock, and, the atmofphere being quite 
ferene towards the ead, his rays could' pafs without any 
obdruflion over the Heinrichdiohe. In the fouth-wed how¬ 
ever, towards Achtermannlhohe, a brilk wed wind carried 
before it thin tranfparent vapours, which were not yetcon- 
denfed into thick heavy clouds. About a quarter pad four 
I went towards the inn, and looked round to fee whether 
the atmofphere would permit me to have a free profpeift 
to the fouth-wed; when 1 obferved, at a very great dif- 
tance towards Achtermannlhohe, a human figure of a mon- 
drous dze. A violent gud of wind having almod carried 
away my hat, 1 clapped my hand to it by moving my arm 
towards my head, and the colodal figure did the fame. 
The pleafure which I felt on this difeovery can hardly be 
deferibed; for I had already walked many a weary dep in 
the hopes of feeing this lhadowy image, without being 
able to gratify my curiofity. I immediately made another 
movement by bending my body, and the colodal figure 
before me repeated it. I was defirous of doing the fame 
thing once more : but my colodus had vanidied. 1 remain¬ 
ed in the fame pofitiOn, waiting to fee whether it would 
return, and in a few minutes it again made its appearance 
on the Achtermannlhohe. I paid my refpefls to it a fecond 
time, and it did the fame to me. I then called the land¬ 
lord of the Broken; and, having both of us taken the 
fame pofition which I had taken alone, we looked towards 
the Achtermannlhohe, but faw nothing. We had not, 
however, dood long, when two fuch colodal figures were 
formed over the eminence, which repeated our compli¬ 
ments by bending their bodies as we did ; after which they 
vanidied. We retained our pofition ; kept our eyes fixed 
on the fame fpot,and in a little time the figures again dood 
before us. Every movement that we made by bending 
our bodies thefe figures imitated ; but with this difference,, 
that the. phenomenon was fometimes weak and faint, fome- 
times drong and well-defined. Having thus had a diffi¬ 
dent opportunity of examining the f'pcblre of the Broken, I 
am enabled to give the following explanation of the cu¬ 
rious phenomenon, whicli has fo fong been the wonder of 
travellers. When the rifing fun, and according to analo¬ 
gy the cafe will be the fame at the fetting fun, throws his 
rays over the Broken upon the body of a man danding 
oppofite to fine light clouds floating around or hovering 
pad him, he needs only fix his eyes dedfadly upon them, 
and, in all probability, he will fee the fingular fpeLtacle of 
his own fhadow extending to the length of five or fix hun¬ 
dred feet, at the didance of about two miles before him. 
This is one of the mod agreeable phenomena I ever had 
an opportunity of remarking on the great obfervatory of 
Germany.’ 
BRO'KEN BAY, a bay on the ead coad of New Hol¬ 
land, Lat. 33•'34. S, Ion. 151. 27. E. Ferro. 
BRO'KEN 
