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i;i the rudiments of painting. To make him amends for 
his kindnefs, Brohwer, "hen fufjrt-’.ently qualified to get a 
livelihood, ran from his maker into France, and, after a 
fhort (lav there, returned, and fettled at Antwerp. Hu¬ 
mour was his proper fpherej and it was in little pieces 
that he ufcd to reprefent liis pot-companions drinking, 
fmoking, gaming, fighting, &c. He did this with a pen¬ 
cil fo t.nder and free, fo much of nature in his exprellion, 
fitch excellent drawing in all the particular parts, and 
good keeping in the whole together, that' none of his 
countrymen have ever been comparable to him upon that 
fubjeCL He was. extremely facetious and pleafant over 
his cups, ('corned-to work as long as he had money in his 
pocket, declared fora (hort.life and a merry one ; and, 
refolving to ride poll to his grave by the help of wine and 
brandy, he got to his journey’s end in 1638, only thirty 
years of age. He died fo very poor, that contributions 
were raifed to lay him privately in the ground; from 
whence he was foon after taken up, and very handfomely 
interred by Rubens, who was a great admirer of his happy 
genius for painting. 
BROW,y: [browa, Sax.] The arch of hair over the 
eye ; the forehead : 
’Tis now the hour which all to red allow, 
And fieep fi:s heavy upon ev’ry broiu. Dry den. 
The general air of the countenance : • 
Then call them to our prefence, facs to face, 
And frowning brow to brozu. Skakejpearc. 
The edge of any high place: 
Them with fire, and hodiie arms, 
Fearlefsalfault; and to’the brow of heav’n 
Purfuing, 'drive them out from God and blifs. Milton , 
To BROW, v. a. To bound ; to limit; to be at the 
•edge of : 
Tending my flocks hard by, i’ th’ hilly crofts 
That brow this bottom glade. Milton. 
BROWAL'LIA, f. [fo named by Linnteus in honour 
of Jolit Browallius, bilhop of Aboa, who defended the 
fexual fyflem againd Siegefbeclp.] In botany, a genus of 
tiie clafs didynamia, order angiolpermia, natural order 
luridae. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
one-leafed, tubular, diort, five-toothed, permanent; tooth- 
lets a iittle unequal. Corolla : monopetalous, funnel- 
form ; tube cylindric, twice as long as the calyx ; border 
flat, equal, five-cleft; divi (ions rounded, emarginate, the . 
upper fomewhat large, condituting the upper lip, the four 
others equal. Stamina: filaments four, in the throat of 
the corolla ; the two upper fhorted, the lower broader, 
higher, coloured, reflex, doling the throat of the corolla ; 
antherse Ample, bent in, converging*; the inner ones twin, 
the outer opening at the top with a little hole, and doling 
the throat of the corolla. Piflillum : germ ovate, ret life ; 
ftyle filiform, the length of the tube of the corolla; fiig- 
ma thick, four-lobed. Pericarpium : capfule ovate, one- 
c.elled, covered, burding into four parts at the top ; par¬ 
tition thin, parallel. Seeds: numerous, (Wall; receptacle 
nearly columnar, comprefled.— EJjential CharaEler. Calyx, 
five toothed. Corolla, border five-cleft, equal, Ip read¬ 
ing, with the navel clofed; antherce two, larger ; capfule 
■one-celled. 
Species. 1. Browallia demiffa, or fpreading browdlia: 
pedunejes one-flowered. This ufually grows about two 
feet high, and fpreads out into lateral branches, with oval 
•entire leaves, ending in a point, and 0(1 Ihort petioles; to¬ 
wards the end of the branches the flowers are produced 
(ingly upon Iona axillary peduncles’. The feeds were fent 
toMr. Philip Miller by Mr. Robert Miller, from Panama 
in the year 1 735. When he firft raifed this plant in the 
Chelfea garden, lie named it Dalca, in honour of Mr. 
Dak,-an eminent botanid, and a great friend of Mr. Ray’s. 
By the fame name he communicated the feeds to Linnteus, 
who changed the name to Browallia. 
Vol. Ill, Mo. 140. 
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2. Browallia elata, or upright browallia: peduncles 
one-flowered and nlany-flowe'rdd. The lecond tort rilesr 
about the fame height as the firft, but fins' ftronger (talks, 
and fends out a great number of branches ; it is therefore 
much more bufliy. The flowers are produced on axillary 
peduncles, fonfe ftidaining one, others three or more, flow¬ 
ers, of a dark blue colour. Mr. Curtis remarks, that it 
is a much taller plant than the dcmijj'a , " lienee its name ; 
and that we cannot do jufiice to the brilliancy of the co¬ 
rolla by any colours we have. Li imams obferves, that 
the lower branches are aimed the length of the deni itfelf, 
and that the floral leaves are aimed Imooth. This is a 
native of Peru ; and was cultivated by Mr, Miller in 176S. 
They both flower.from July to September. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants being annual, 
their feeds mud be foun every year upon a hot-bed in the 
fp ring; and the plants mud be brought forward on ano¬ 
ther, to perfect feeds in England. Some of them may be 
transplanted in June into the borders of the flower-garden ; 
where, if the feafon prove warm, they will flower and 
perfect feeds ; but, led thefe Should' fail, there thould be 
two or three plants kept in the dove for that purpofe. 
BROW-ANTLER, /I among hunters, the fil'd dart 
that grows on a dag’s head. 
To BROW'BEAT, v. a. To deprefs with tevere brows, 
and dern or lofty looks. 
BROW'BEATING,y] Scornful and depreding looks.— 
What man will voluntarily expofe himfeif to the impe¬ 
rious browbeatings and fcorns of great men. L'EJlrange. 
BROW'BOUN D, participle adj. Crowned; having tlni 
head encircled as with a diadem : 
He prov’d the bed man i’ th* field ; and, for his meed, 
Was browbound with the oak. Shahcfpearc. 
BROWERSHA'VEN, a fea-port town of Zealand, fi- 
tuated on the north fide of the ille of Scouwen, oppofite 
Goree, laid to be fo named as Port des BralTeurs, the port 
or haven of brewers. In'1426, a bloody battle was fought 
near this town, between Philip duke of Burgundy, and 
Humphry duke of Gloucester, brother to Henry V.king 
of England, v\ ho came with 3000 Englifhto the afiidance 
of Mary de Jaqueline counteSs of Holland, in which the 
duke of Glouceder was defeated. It is five miles fouth 
of Goree, and eight fouth-" ed of Helvoetfluys. 
BROW-HEAD, a cape on the fouth coad of Ireland, in 
the county of Cork. Lat. 51.23. Ion.9.39. W.Greenwich. 
BROWN, adj. [brun. Sax. ] The name of a dulky co¬ 
lour, inclining to rednels; for the various kinds and pre¬ 
parations of which, fee Colour. 
Along untravell’d heaths,' 
With defolation brown, he wanders wade. Tkomfon. 
BROWN (Robert), a famous fedarift, from whom 
the fet’t of the Brownifts derived its name, was fon of 
Anthony Brown, Efq. o'f Tolthorpe, in Rutlanddiire; 
dudied divinity at Cambridge, and was afterwards a 
fchoolmader in Southwark. He fell at fird into Cart¬ 
wright’s opinions; but, refolving to refine upon them, 
began about 1580 to inveigh openly again ft the di'ciphne 
and ceremonies of the church cf England, as antichriftian 
and (uperditious. He made his fird elfay upon the Dutch 
congregation at Norwich, many of whom were inclined to 
anabaptifm ; and, having raifed himfeif a character for 
zeal and fundity, his own countrymen began to follow 
him; upon which he called in the aflidance ot Richard 
Harrifon, a country fchoolmader. Brown and this man 
foon worked up their audience to fe pa rate entirely from 
the church of England, and to form a lociety among 
themfelves. Brown was convened before Freak e bhhop 
of Norwich, and other ecclefiadica! commillioners; and 
having not only maintained his opinions, but alfo mifbe- 
haved to the court, was commuted to the cudbdy of the 
lheriff of Norwich : but the lord treafurer Burleigh, to 
whom he was nearly related, forefeeing that this treat¬ 
ment would rather ferve to propagate than ltifle Ins errors, 
wrote a letter to the bifliop of Norwich, which procured 
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