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ItfUares, and a .number of handfome buildings, among 
which are the town-houle, and feveral churches all tor 
Proteftanfs ; the inhabitants of this town being among the 
firlt who embraced the doctrine of Luther. There are, 
betides, a college for the (tudy of arts and feiences, which 
has a well-furniflied library ; an opera-houfe ; a theatre ; 
ana a cuftom-houfe. Brunfwick was formerly one of the 
Hanfe towns, and governed by a republic, aflerting that 
they had purchafed their freedom from the dukes ot Brunl- 
wick4 who feveral times with arms dilputed this preten¬ 
tion. In the years 1542, 1550, and 1553, Henry theYoung 
befieged the town, which {'offered very confiderably, but, 
being fuccoured by fonie troops of their allies, the people 
prelerved their liberty : in 1569, an accommodation took 
place; but in 16x7, Frederick Ulric compelled them to 
pay him homage ; and in 1670, Rodolphus Auguftus took 
poffeflion of the town, and it is faid, by means of cannon 
which he had borrowed of the inhabitants for another pur- 
.pofe ; and afterwards built a citadel to fecure its inbjec- 
tion. The town is populous, but not fo much fo as when it 
wasa free town ; for the numerous garrifon placed there by 
the duke drove away a great number of the tradefmen and 
injured its commerce. The firft fpinning wheels are faid 
Xo have been invented in this place by a flatuary of the 
name of Jurgen : the flrong beer, or mum, fo called from 
the inventor, or brewer, Chriftian Mutnmen, is exported 
to. many parts of the world. In 1757, the French took 
Brunfwick, but evacuated it the year following; and in 
17IJI they attempted to take it again, but without fuccefs. 
It is feven miles north of Wolfenbuttel, and forty-feven 
Aveft-north-weft of Magdeburg. Lat. 52. 10. N. Ion. 28. 
9. E. Ferro. 
BRUNS'WICK, a city of United America, intheftate 
of New Jerfey, fituated on the fouth-vvefl fide of the Ra- 
riton, with a port for fmall veffels ; the inhabitants carry 
ou a confiderable trade ; they are about two thoufand in 
number, half of which are Dutch, or of Dutch extrac¬ 
tion. It is forty-five miles north-eaft of Philadelphia, 
and twenty-five fouth-weft of New York. I.at, 40. 29. N. 
Ion. 74. 30. W. Greenwich. 
BRUNS'WICK, a town of America, in the country of 
Maine : one hundred and two miles north-eaft of Boftcn. 
Lat. 43. 50. N. Ion. 69. 58. W. Greenwich. 
BRUNS'WICK, a town of the United States of Ame¬ 
rica, in North Carolina, near the mouth of Cape Fear ri¬ 
ver on the weft fide : eighty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft 
of Newbern. Lat. 34. 2. N. Lon. 78- 12. W. Greenwich. 
BRUNS'WICK, a town of the United States of Ame¬ 
rica, in Georgia, on Turtle-river; it has a good capacious 
Barbour, and promifes to become a place of great trade, 
from the richnefs of the foil of the neighbouring country. 
It is fifty-five miles fouth-weft of Savanna. Lat. 31. 14. 
N. Ion. 81.45. W. Greenwich. 
BRUNS'WICK (New), a government or divifion of 
Nova.Scotia, lying on the north-weft of the bay of Fun- 
dy ; bounded on the fonth by the American ftates, on the 
weft and north by Canada, and on the eaft by the gulf of 
St. Lawrence ; St. John’s river croffes it in the centre 
from north-weft to fouth-eaft. Frederic-town is the capital. 
BRUNS'WICK (Family of), the illuftrious royal family 
of Great Britain. For. its antiquity and hiftory, fee the 
article Heraldry. 
BRUNS'WICK HOUSE, a fettlement on Moofe River, 
in Canada. Lat. 50. 13. N. Ion. 83. 31. W. Greenwich. 
BRUNT, f. [ brunjl , Dot.] Shock; violence.—Faith¬ 
ful minifters are to ftand and endure the brunt; a common 
foldier may fly, when it is the duty of him that holds the 
ftandard to die upon the place.. South. —Blow ; ftroke : 
The friendly rug preferv’d the ground, 
And headlong knight from bruife or wound, 
Like featherbed betwixt a wall 
And heavy brunt of cannon-ball. Hudibras. 
BRUNUSEE', a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
■Stiria: twelve miles weft of Rackelburg. 
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BRUSCI-I, a river of France, w hich runs into the Rhine 
at Stralburgh. By means of iluices it forms a canal from 
Molfheitn. 
BRUS'OHIUS (Gafpar), a Latin hiftorian and poet, 
born at Egra in Bohemia, in 1518. He was devoted to 
books from his childhood, and efpecially to poetry ; in 
which he fo happily fucceeded, that he could make a great 
number of verfes extempore. He began early to publifb, 
and loon attained to the poetical crown, to the dignity of 
poet-laureat, and of count palatine. He received that ho¬ 
nour at Vienna from Ferdinand of Aufiria, kin£ of the 
Romans, in 1552. His bulinefs thither was to prefent a 
work to Maximilian, king of Hungary, which he had 
dedicated to him. It was the firft century of the German 
monafteries. In his return from Vienna, he flopped at 
Paffau ; where, finding a patron in Wolfgang bifttop of 
Salms, he refolved to fettle, and to remove his library 
and family. He hoped that he could better go on there 
with a great work he had undertaken, which was, The 
Hiftory of all the Bifhoprics and Bifhops of Germany. 
He had travelled much, and looked into feveral records 
and libraries, to gather materials for his purpofe. He 
was far from being rich ; and for many years lived on the 
bounty of the abbots and abbeffes, whofe monafteries he 
deferibed. Their liberality enabled him to buy a new fuit 
of clothes; but, when he found that appearing well dreifed 
in the (beets procured him many marks of rcfpedl: from 
the vulgar, he tore his new finery to pieces, “as Haves 
(fays the fame author) that had ufurped their mafier’s ho¬ 
nours.” This unfortunate man was murdered in the foreft 
of Scalingenbach, between Rottemberg on the Tauber 
and Winlheim ; and it was believed that this affaflination 
was concerted by fome gentlemen againftwhom Brufchius 
was about to write. His works are numerous. There is 
a catalogue of them in the epitome of Gefner’s Bibliotheque. 
BRUS'CUS,/. in botany. See Rusctts. 
BRUSEGA'NA, a town of Italy, in the Paduan : four 
miles weft-north-weft of Padua. 
BRUSH, J. [brojfe , Fr. from brufeus, Lat.] An inftru- 
ment to clean any thing, by rubbing off the dirt or foil. 
It is generally made of briftles fet in wood. It is ufed for 
the larger and ftronger pencils ufed by painters.—Whence 
comes all this rage of wit ? this arming all the pencils and 
brujhes of the town againft me ? Stilling fleet.— A rude af- 
fault; a {hock; rough treatment; which, by the fame 
metaphor, we call a Jfouring : 
Elfe, when we put it to the pufti, 
They had not giv’n us fuch a brujh. Hudibras. 
BRUSH, f. in eledlricity, denotes the luminous ap¬ 
pearance of the eledtric matter ifluing in a parcel of di¬ 
verging rays from a point. Beecaria aferibes this appear¬ 
ance to the force with which the eledtric fluid, going out 
of a point, divides the contiguous air, and paffes through 
it to that which is more remote. 
To BRUSH, v.a. To fweeporrub with abrulh. — If he 
be not in love with fome woman, there is no believing old 
figns: he£ra/$«hishato’ morning; what fliould that bode? 
Skakefpeare. —To ftrike with quicknefs, as in brulhing ; 
High o’er the billows flew the maffy load, 
And near the fttip came thund’ring on the flood, 
It almoft brujh'd the helm. Pope. 
To paint with a brufli.—You have commiflioned me to 
paint your fliop, and I have done my beft to brujh you up 
like your neighbours. Pope .— To carry away, by an ad{ 
like that of bruftiing; to fweep : 
And from the boughs brujh oflf the evil dew, 
And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew. Milton , 
To move as the brufli : 
A thoufand nights have brujh'd their balmy wings 
Over thefe eyes. J)ryden, 
To BRUSH, p, n. To move with hafte : a ludicrous 
word, applied to men: 
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