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timber-trees, and is foinetimes ufed as fuch, though not 
generally valued. 
BROS'NA, a river of Ireland, which rims into ihe 
"Shannon, three miles above Banagher, in King’s County. 
BROS'NA'(‘Little), a river of Ireland, which runs into 
the Shannon, four miles above Banagher. 
BROS'SAC, a town of France, in the department of 
tlie Charente, and chief place of a canton, in the dibrift 
of Barbefieux : ten miles fouth-fouth-eab of Barbebe'ux. 
BROS'S/EA, f. [fo named from Guy- de la Brojfc, in- 
tendant of the royal garden at Paris.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs pentandria, order monogynia, natural order 
bicornes. The generic chara6lers are—Calyx : p.erian- 
thiwvn one-leafed, five-parted ; divifions ending in ereft 
points the length of the corolla. Corolla: monopetalous, 
conic,truncated at the end, entire. Stamina; five. Pil- 
tillu'm : germ pentacoccous; ftyle fubulate, fhorter than 
the corolla; fligma fituple. Pericarpium ; capfule round- 
ifh, divided with five furrows, five-celled, covered with a 
large converging, flefliy, fucculent, calyx, burfting at the 
iides. Seeds: very many, extremely minute.— F.Jfential 
Charabler. Calyx, flefhy. Corolla, truncate. Capfule, .five- 
celled, many-feeded. 
There is but one fpecies, called brodlea coccinea. It 
has alternate branches and leaves; the (lowers are few, 
terminating the branches, alternate. It is an obfeure 
plant, and the character is doubtful, except what Plunder 
has faid of it. Native of South America. 
BROSSA'RD (Sebadian de), canon of the church of 
Meaux, died in 1730, aged about feventy, excelledin the 
theory of mafic. The writings lie has left on that art 
have met with a good reception from tlie public. 1 he 
chief of them are, 1. A Dictionary of Mafic, 8vo. which 
was of great fervice to Rondeau. In the articles where 
this learned maber was his guide, there are few that con¬ 
tain any thing cenfurable ; but this cannot be faid of tiiofe 
that are entirely by the citizen of Geneva. However, 
thefe latter are prefented with fo much elegance and 
warmth of imagination, that they obtain a pardon, or at 
lead: an excufe, for the miftakes. 2. A Diflertation on the 
Manner of writing the Plain-chant and Mafic. 3. Two 
Books of Mote's. 4. Nine Leffons of Tenebres. 5. A 
Collection of Airs for the Voice. He was not only mafler 
of the rules, but lie reduced them to praftice. BroiFard 
had a numerous library of mafic, which he gave to the 
French king. He had apenfion of 120® livres on a benefice. 
BROS'SE (Guy de la), phyfician in ordinary to Lewis 
XIII. obtained from that king, in 1626, letters patent for 
the edablibnnent of the royal garden of medicinal plants, 
«f which he was the firb director. He immediately fet 
about preparing the ground, and furnifhed it with up¬ 
wards of 2Q00 plants. The lift of them may be feen in his 
Description du Jardin Royal, 1636, 4to. He compofed a 
Ireatife on the virtues of plants, 1628, 8vo. 
BROSSET'TE (Claude), was born at Lyons, in 1671. 
He was firft a Jefuit, but afterwards an advocate. He was 
of the academy of Lyons, and librarian of the public li¬ 
brary there. In 1716 he publiflied the works ot Boileau, 
in 2 vols. 4to, with hiftorical illnftrations; and, atter that, 
he did the Lime for the works of Regnier. He purged 
the text of both thefe authors from the errors of the pre¬ 
ceding editions, and feafoned his notes with many ufeftil 
and curious anecdotes of men and things. He wrote alfo 
L’Hiboive Abregee de la Ville de Lyon ; and died there 
in 1746. 
BROTERQD', a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and county of Hennehwrg,belongingto tlie land¬ 
grave of Helfe Calfel : three miles north of Sehmalkalden. 
BROTH ,/• [broth, Sax.} Liquor in which flefhhas been 
boiled.-—If a nurfe, after being fucked dry, eats broth, the 
infant will fuck the broth almoft unaltered. Arbuthnot. 
BROTHEL, or Brothei.-house, j. [bordel, Fr.} A 
Jioulc of lewd entertainment ; a bawdy houfc : 
From its old ruins brothel-houfes rife, 
Scenes © ( f lewd loves and of polluted joys. Drydcn. 
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•BROTHER, yi [brother, broth o'-, Sax.] pint*, brother $ 
or brethren. One born of the fame lather and mother.—• 
Comparing two men, in reference to one common parent, 
it is very eafy to form t he ideas of brothers. Locke. —Any 
one clofely united ; allbciate : 
We few, we happy few, we hand of brothers ; 
For he to-day that llieds his blood with me, 
Shall be my brother. Shahrfpeare. 
Any one refembling another in manner, form, or profef- 
fion.-—He alfo that is (lothful in his work, is brother to him 
that is a great wader, Proverbs.—Brother is tiled, in theo¬ 
logical language, for man in general. 
By the civil law, brothers and fibers band in the fecond 
degree of confanguinity; by the canon law, they are in the 
hrb degree. By (lie Mofaic law, the brother of a man 
who died without iliac was obliged to marry the widow of 
tile deceafed. Deut. xxv. 7. The ancients applied the 
term brother indifferently toalmob all who bood related in 
the collateral line, as uncles and nephews, coufin-.germans, 
&c. This we learn not only from a great many padages 
in the Old Tcdament, but alfo from profane authors. 
Cicero, in his Philippics, fays, “ Antonia was both wife 
and fiber of Mark Anthony ; becaufe die was the daugh¬ 
ter of his brother C. Antonias.” The language of the 
Jew's, bibiop Pearfon obferves, likewife included in the 
name of brethren not only the drift relation ot fraternity, 
but alfo the larger of confanguinity. We are brethren,, 
fays Abraham to Lot, Gen. xiii. whereas Lot was only 
iiis nephew. So Jacob told Rachel that he was her la¬ 
ther’s brother, Gen. xxix. 12. whereas he was only her 
father’s nephew. Among us, it is cubomary for kings to 
give the title of brother to each other; the tmftion in coro¬ 
nation being ebeemed to create a kind of brotherhood. 
Nor is the cubom modern : Menander mentions a letter 
of Cofroesking of Periia to the emperor Jubiniart, begin¬ 
ning thus : “ Cofroes, king of kings, to the emperor Jus¬ 
tinian, my brother.” Brother is alfo a cubomary term for 
priebs of the fame perfuafion to addre(s one another by ; 
but it is more particularly uf’ed to denote the relation be¬ 
tween monks o,f the fame con vent; as, Brother Zachary 1 
in Engli'h, we more ufually fay, Friar Zachary, from the 
French word frere, brother. Preachers alfo call their 
hearers, my brethren. Sec. This appellation is borrowed 
from the primitive Chridians, who all called each other bro¬ 
ther. But it is now principally ufed for fuch of the reli¬ 
gious who are not priebs; thofe in orders are generally 
honoured with the title oifather, whereas the red are bm- 
ply brothers. Brother is alfo an appellation peculiarly gi¬ 
ven to certain orders of religious : thus, the Rrothers of 
St. E/exis, in the Low Countries, were an order of perfons. 
who attended on thofe who lay dying, and took care of the 
burial of the dead. 
Fojler-Brother, one who fucked the fame nurfe. The 
French call them fraires du lait, or brothers by milk 
which is mob properly ufed in refpeft of a perlon who 
fucked a nurfe atthe fame timewiththe nurfe’sown child. 
BROTHER- German. See German. 
BROTHER in Arms, an appellation given thofe who 
contraft a fraternity in war, obliging themfelves to the mu¬ 
tual fervice and abidance of each other. In the military 
orders, the knights are alfo called brothers. In theorder of 
Malta, there is a particular clafs, who are called ferving 
brothers , confiding of fuch as cannot give proof of their 
nobilitv. In Latin they are called frames clientes. 
BROTHER of the Rofy Crofs. See Rosicrucians- 
BRO'THERHOOD,/. The bate or quality ot being a 
brother.— So it be a l ight to govern, whether you call it 
fupreme fatherhood, or fupreme brotherhood, will be all 
one. Locke. —An afl’oeiation of men for any ptirpofe; a 
fraternity.—There was a fraternity of men at arms, called 
the brotherhood: of St. George, erqfted by parliament, con¬ 
fiding of thirteen of the mob noble and worthy perfons. 
Davies. —A clafs of men of the fame kind.—He was 
times fo engaged among the wheels, that not above hat 
