462 B R y 
fofs of her kittens had awakened Sin her breaf!; and by the 
Complacency and cafe [lie derived to herlclf from the pro- 
caring her teats to be drawn, which were too much dtf- 
tended with milk, till from habit (lie became as much de¬ 
lighted with this foundling as if it had been her real off- 
fpring. This incident is no bad Folution of that drange 
circumflance which grave hidorians as well as the poets 
afl'crt, of expofed children having been nurtured by fe¬ 
male wild beads that probably had loft their young. For 
it is,not more marvellous that Romulus and Remus, in 
their infant (fate, (hould be nurfed by a (he-wolf, than that 
a poor little fucking leveret Ihould be foftered and clie- 
riftied by a bloody grimalkin.” 
It has been much difputed whether brutes have any 
language whereby they can exprefs their minds to each 
other; or whether all the noife they make confifts only of 
cries inarticulate, and unintelligible even to themfelves. 
We are, however, too little acquainted with the intellec¬ 
tual faculties of thefe creatures to be able to determine this 
point. Certain it is, that their'pallions, when excited, are 
generally productive of fome peculiar cry ; but whether this 
be defigned as an exprefiion of the padion to others, or only 
a mechanical motion of the mul'des' of the larynx occa- 
foned by the paflion, is what we have no means or know¬ 
ing. We may indeed, from analogy, conclude, with great 
reafon, that fome of the cries of beads are really expref- 
fiens of their fentiments ; but whether one heart is capa¬ 
ble of forming a delign, and communicating that defign 
by any kind of language to others, is what we fubmit to 
the judgment of the reader, after giving the following in¬ 
dance, which among others is brought as a proof of it by 
father Bougeant: “ A fparrovv finding a neft that a mar¬ 
tin had juft built, [landing Very conveniently for him, pof- 
feffed himfelf of it. The martin, feeing the uftirper in 
her houfe, called for help to expel him. A thoufand 
martins came full fpeed, and attacked the fparrow ; but 
the latter being covered on every fide, and preferring on¬ 
ly his large beak at the entrance of the neft, was invulne¬ 
rable, and made the bolded of them who durft approach 
him repent of their temerity. After a quarter of an hour’s 
combat, all the martins difappeared. The fparrow thought 
he had got the better, and the fpedlators judged that the 
martins had abandoned their undertaking. Not in the 
lead. Immediately they returned to the charge; and each 
of them having procured a little of that tempered earth 
with which they make their neds, they all at once fell 
upon the fparrow, and inclofed him in the ned to peri(h 
there, though they could not drive him thence. Can it 
be imagined that the martins could have been able to con¬ 
cert this delign all of them together, without fpeaking to 
each other, or without fome medium of communication 
equivalent to language?” See Instinct. 
To BRUTE, v.a. [written ill for bruit. ] To report.— 
This, once bruted through the army, filled them all with 
heavinef's. Knollcs. 
BRUTE'NKSS, f. Brutality: a word not new vfed. 
BRU'TlA,_/i [lo called from Brutia , a country in the 
extreme parts of Italy, where it was produced.] An epi¬ 
thet for the mod refinous fort of pitch. 
To BRU'TIF Y, v. a. To make a man a brute.—O thou 
fallacious woman! am I then brutjied? Ay; feel it here; 
i fprout, I bud, 1 am ripe horn ntad. Congreve. 
BRU'TII, the ancient name of one of the two penin- 
fulas of Italy, dretching to the fouth towards Sicily; 
bounded by the lea on every fide except by the idhmus, 
between the river Laos and the Thurii, where it was ter¬ 
minated by Lucania; inhabited by the Brutii, for whofe 
country the ancient Romans had no peculiar name, calling 
both the people and the country indiscriminately Brutii. 
This, and a part of Lucania, was the ancient Italia. Ste- 
phanus. It was called / 3 ^srli«, which in Greek frgnifies 
pitch, from the great quantity of it produced there. Bochart. 
It is divided into.two coads by the Apennine; that on the 
Tufcan and that on the Ionian Sea; now called Calabria 
Ultra, Different from the ancient Calabria or Melfapia, 
B R U 
to the cad oil the Adriatic or Ionian Sea, and which form¬ 
ed the other peninfula or heel of the leg, now called Ca¬ 
labria Citra , the Brutii forming the foot. According to 
Judin, the inhabitants were originally Lucanian (hepherds, 
who revolted, and went in qued of a fertlement. Both 
he and Strabo affert, that they received the name of Brutii 
from their dupidity and cowardice, in fubmitting without 
oppofition to Hannibal, in the fecond Punic war. They 
were ever after held in the greated dtfgrace, and employed 
in every fervile work. Juft-in, 23,0. 9. Strabo, 6 . Ditid. 16. 
BRU'TISH, adj. Befiial; relembling a bead : 
Ofiris, lfis, Orus, and their train, 
With monitions diapes and forceries abus’d 
Fanatic Egypt, and her prieds, to feek 
Their vvand’ring gods difguis’d in brutijh forms. Milton. 
Having the qualities of a brute ; rough; favage ; fero¬ 
cious.—Brutes, and brutijh men, are commonly more able 
to bear pain than others. Grew. —Grofs ; carnal : 
For thou thyfelf had been a libertine. 
As fenfual as the brutijh fling itfelf. Shakcfpeart. 
Ignorant; untaught; uncivilized.—They were not fo bru— 
tifh , that they could be ignorant to call upon the name 
of God. Hooker. 
B RU'TISHLY, adv. In the manner of a brute ; favagd- 
ly ; irrationally; grofsly.—For a man to found a.confident 
practice upon a difptttable principle, is biulifhty to out¬ 
run his reafon. South. 
BRU'TISHNESS, f. Brutality; favagenefs.—All other 
courage, befides that, is not true valour, but brutijhnefs, 
Spratt. 
BRU'TON, a pleafant and populous town in Somerfet- 
fhire, 117 miles fouth-wed of London, twelve fouth-wed 
of Frome, five north wed of Wincanton, and feven fouth- 
ead of Shepton-iVIallet. The town contains about 800 in¬ 
habitants. It lias a done bridge over the river Brue, 
(from which it takes its name,) on the I.ondon road to 
Bridgewater. Here is a richly-endowed charity-hofpital, 
founded by the trudees of one Saxey, a native of this 
place ; wherein refide a certain number of poor men, wo¬ 
men, and boys; to whom a comfortable fudenartce is 
granted. The market is held on Saturdays; and two fairs 
annually, on the 4th of May and the 5.9th of September. 
There is a fpaeious hall over the market-houfe, where the 
quartcr-feftions are fometimes held for the eadern divifion 
of the county. The principal manufaflure of the town is 
hofiery and filk-twiding. Adjacent to the town, is Red- 
linch, the elegant feat of the earl of Ilcheder. 
BRU'TULUS, a Samnite, who killed himfelf, upon 
being delivered to the Romans for violating a treaty. 
Liv. 8, c. 39. 
BRU'TUS (Lucius Junius), fon of Marcus Junius and 
Tarquinia fecond daughter of Tarquin Prifcus. The fa¬ 
ther, with his elded fon, were murdered by Tarquin the 
Proud; and Luc ids, unable to revenge their death, pre¬ 
tended to be infane. The artifice faved his life; he was. 
called Brutus for his dupidity, which he however loon af¬ 
ter diewed to be feigned.. When Lucretia killed herfelf, 
B. C. 509, in confequence of the brutality of Tarquin. 
Brutus fnatched the dagger from the wound, and fwore, 
upon the reeking blade, immortal Hatred to the royal fa¬ 
mily. Plis example was followed 3 the Tarqwins were 
profcribed'by a decree of the fenate, and the royal autho¬ 
rity veiled in the hands of confuls cltofen from patrician, 
families. Brutus, in his confular office, made the people 
fwear they never would again fubmit to kingly authority; 
but the fird who violated their oath were in his own fa¬ 
mily. His fons confpired with the Tufean ambafladpr to 
redore theTarquins; and, when difeovered, they were tried 
and condemned before their father, who himfelf attended 
at their execution. Some time affer, in a combat that 
was fought between the Romans and Tarquins,. Brutus 
engaged with Aruns, and fo fierce was the attack that 
they pierced one another at the fame time. The dead 
