A due consideration of the vanities of the world, will naturally bring us to the contempt of it; and the contempt of the world will as certainly bring us home to ourselves. L'Estrange. The understanding should be brought to the difficult and knotty parts of knowledge by insensible degrees. Locke.

8. To recal; to summons.

But those, and more than I to mind can bring, Menalcus has not yet forgot to sing. Dryden. 9. To induce; to prevail upon.

The nature of the things, contained in those words, would not suffer him to think otherwise, how or whensoever he is brought to reflect on them. Locke.

It seems so preposterous a thing to men, to make themselves unhappy in order to happiness, that they do not easily bring themselves to it. Locke. Prafitable employments would be no less a diversion than any of the idle sports in fashion, if men could be brought to delight in them, Locke. 10. To bring about. See ABOUT.] To bring to pass; to effect.

This he conceives not hard to bring about, If all of you would join to help him out. Dryd.

This turn of mind threw off the oppositions of envy and competition; it enabled him to gain the most vain and impracticable into his designs, and to bring about several great events, for the advantage of the publick. Addison's Freeholder. 11. To bring forth. To give birth to; to produce.

The good queen,

For she is good, hath brought you forth a daughter:
Here't is; commends it to your blessing. Shak.
More wonderful

Than that which, by creation, first brought forth
Light out of darkness!
Paradise Lost.
Bewail thy falsehood, and the pious works
It hath brought forth, to make thee memorable
Among illustrious women, faithful wives.
Milton's Agonistes.
Bellona leads thee to thy lover's hand;
Another queen brings forth another brand,
To burn with foreign fires her native land! Dryd.
Idleness and luxury bring forth poverty and
want; and this tempts men to injustice, and that
causeth enmity and animosity.
Tillotson.

The value of land is raised when it is fitted to bring forth a greater quantity of any valuable product. Locke. 12. To bring forth. To bring to light. The thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. Job. 13. To bring in. To place in any condi

tion.

He protests he loves you; And needs no other suitor, but his liking, To bring you in again. Shakspeare's Othello. 14. To bring in. To reduce.

Send over into that realm such a strong power of men, as should perforce bring in all that rebellious rout, and loose people. Spenser on Ireland. 15. To bring in. To afford gain.

The sole measure of all his courtesies is, what return they will make him, and what revenue they will bring him in. South. Trade brought us in plenty and riches. Locke. 16. To bring in. To introduce.

Entertain no long discourse with any, but, if you can, bring in something to season it with religion. Taylor.

There is but one God who made heaven and earth, and sea and winds; but the folly and madness of mankind brought in the images of gods. Stilling fleet.

The fruitfulness of Italy, and the like, are

not brought in by force, but naturally rise out of the argument. Addicos. Since he could not have a seat among them himself, he would bring in one who had more Tatler. Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

17.

merit.

Swift. To bring off. To clear; to procure to be acquitted; to cause to escape.

I trusted to my head, that has betrayed me; and I found fault with my legs, that would otherwise have brought me off. L'Estrange.

Set a kite upon the bench, and it is forty to one he'll bring off a crow at the bar. L'Estrange. The best way to avoid this imputation, and to bring off the credit of our understanding, is to be truly religious. Tillation. 18. To bring on.

To engage in action. If there be any that would reign, and take up all the time, let him find means to take them off, and bring others on. Bacon. 19. To bring on. sional cause.

To produce as an occa

The fountains of the great deep being broke open, so as a general destruction and devastation was brought upon the earth, and all things in it. Burnet's Theary.

The great question, which in all ages has disturbed mankind, and brought on them those mischiefs. Locke. 20. To bring over. To convert; to draw to a new party.

ment.

This liberty should be made use of upon few occasions of small importance, and only with a view of bringing over his own side, another time, to something of greater and more publick moSwift. The protestant clergy will find it, perhaps, no difficult matter to bring great numbers over to the church. Swift. 21. To bring out. To exhibit; to show. If I make not this cheat bring out another, and the shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled. Shakspeare's Winter's Tale.

Which he could bring out, where he had, And what he bought them for, and paid. Hudib. These shake his soul, and, as they boldly press, Bring out his crimes, and force him to confess.

Dryden.

Another way made use of, to find the weight of the denarii, was by the weight of Greek coins; but those experiments bring out the denarius Arbuthnot. To subdue; to re

heavier.

22. To bring under.

ceremonies, were first of all brought up among the politer part of mankind, who lived in courts and cities.

Spectator.

25. To bring up. To cause to advance. Bring up your army; but I think you'll find, They 've not prepar'd for us. Shakspeare. 26. Bring retains, in all its senses, the idea of an agent, or cause, producing a real or metaphorical motion of something toward something; for it is oft said, that he brought his companion out: the meaning is, that he was brought to something that was likewise without. BRINGER. n. s. [from bring.] The person that brings any thing.

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office: and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,

Remember'd tolling a dead friend. Shakspeare.
Best you see safe the bringer
Out of the host: I must attend mine office.

Shakspeare. BRINGER UP. Instructor; educator. Italy and Rome have been breeders and bringers up of the worthiest men. Ascham. BRI'NISH. adj. [from brine.] Having the taste of brine; salt.

Nero would be tainted with remorse To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears. Shakspeare.

For now I stand, as one upon a rock, .Environ'd with a wilderness of sea, Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave; Expecting ever when some envious surge Will, in his brinish bowels, swallow him. Shaksp. BRI'NISHNESS. n. s. [from brinish.] Saltness; tendency to saltness. BRINK. ». 5. [brink, Danish.] The edge of any place, as of a precipice or a river.

Th' amazed flames stand gather'd in a heap, And from the precipice's brink retire, Afraid to venture on so large a leap.

Dryden.

We stand therefore on the brinks and confines

of those states at the day of doom.

Atterbury.

So have I seen, from Severn's brink, A flock of geese jump down together; Swim where the bird of Jove would sink, And, swimming, never wet a feather. BRISY. adj. [from brine.] Salt.

Swift.

He, who first the passage try'd, In harden'd oak his heart did hide; Or his, at least, in hollow wood, Who tempted first the briny flood. Dryden. Then, briny seas, and tasteful springs, farewel, Where fountain nymphs, confus'd with Nereids, dwell. Addison.

A muriatick or briny taste seems to be produced by a mixture of an acid and alkaline salt; for spirit of salt, and salt of tartar, mixed, produce a salt like sea salt.

BRIONY. See BRYONY.
BRISK. adj. [brusque, French.]

Arbuthnot.

1. Lively; vivacious; gay; sprightly:

applied to men.

Pr'ythee, die, and set me free,

Or else be,

Kind and brisk and gay like me.

Denbam.

A creeping young fellow, that had committed matrimony with a brisk gamesome lass, was so altered in a few days, that he was liker a skeleton than a living man. L'Estrange,

Why should all honour then be ta'en From lower parts to load the brain;

VOL. 1.

Powerful; spirituous.

Prior.

Our nature here is not unlike our wine: Some sorts, when old, continue brisk and fine. Denham.

Under ground, the rude Riphæan race Mimick brisk cyder, with the brake's product wild,

Sloes pounded, hips, and servis' harshest juice. Phillips.

It must needs be some exteriour cause, and the brisk acting of some objects without me, whose efficacy I cannot resist. Locke.

3. Vivid; bright. Not used.

Objects appeared much darker, because my instrument was overcharged; had it magnified thirty or twenty-five times, it had made the object appear more brisk and pleasant. Newton. To BRISK UP. v. n. To come up briskly. BRI'SKET. n. s. [brichet, Fr.] The breast of an animal.

See that none of the wool be wanting, that their gums be red, teeth white and even, and the brisket skin red. Mortimer.

BRI'SKLY. adv. [from brisk.] Actively; vigorously.

We have seen the air in the bladder suddenly expand itself so much, and so briskly, that it ma nifestly lifted up some light bodies that leaned upon it. Boyle. I could plainly perceive the creature to suck in many of the most minute animalcula, that were swimming briskly about in the water. Ray. BRI'SKNESS. n. s. [from brisk.]

1. Liveliness; vigour; quickness.

Some remains of corruption, though they do not conquer and extinguish, yet will slacken and allay, the vigour and briskness of the renewed principle. South. 2. Gayety.

But the most distinguishing part of his character seems to me to be his briskness, his jollity, and his good humour. BRISTLE. n. s. [brirzl,

stiff hair of swine.

Dryden. Sax.] The

Two boars whom love to battle draws, With rising bristles, and with frothy jaws, Their adverse breasts with tusks oblique they wound. Dryden.

To BRISTLE. v. a. [from the noun.] To erect in bristle.

Now for the bare pickt bone of majesty, Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest, And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace. Shak. Which makes him plume himself, and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity. Shaks. To BRISTLE. V. N. To stand erect as bristles.

Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, Pard, or boar with bristled hair, In thy eye that shall appear,

When thou wak'st, it is thy dear. Shakspeare Stood Theodore surpriz'd in deadly fright, With chatt'ring teeth, and bristling hair upright; Yet arm'd with inborn worth.

To BRISTLE a thread. To fix a bristle to it.

BRISTLY. adj. [from bristle.] Thick set with bristles.

The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly, which may help to preserve the dew. Bacon.

If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset with rugged scales and bristly hairs. Bentley. Thus mastful beech the bristly chestnut bears, And the wild ash is white with bloomy pears. Dryden.

The careful master of the swine, Forth hasted he to tend his bristled care. Pope. BRISTOL STONE. A kind of soft diamond found in a rock near the city of Bristol. Of this kind of crystal are the better and larger sort of Bristol-stones, and the Kerry Stones of Ireland. Woodward.

BRIT. J. A fish.

The pilchards were wont to pursue the brit, upon which they feed, into the havens. Carew. To BRITE. v. n. Barley, wheat, or TO BRIGHT. hops, are said to brite, when they grow over ripe. BRITTLE. adj. [brittan, Sax.] Fragile; apt to break; not tough.

The wood of vines is very durable; though no tree hath the twigs, while they are green, so brittle, yet the wood dried is extremely tough.

Bacon. From earth all came, to earth must all return, Frail as the cord, and brittle as the urn. Prior. Of airy pomp, and fleeting joys, What does the busy world conclude at best, But brittle goods, that break like glass? Granv. If the stone is brittle, it will often crumble, and pass in the form of gravel. BRITTLENESS. n. s. [from brittle.] Aptness to break; fragility.

Arbuthnot.

A wit quick without brightness, sharp without brittleness. Ascham's Schoolmaster.

Artificers, in the tempering of steel, by holding it but a minute or two longer or lesser in the flame, give it very differing tempers, as to brittleness or toughness.

BRIZE. 7. S. The gadfly.

Boyle.

A brize, a scorned little creature, Through his fair hide his angry sting did threaten.

BROACH. n. s. [broche, French.] 1. A spit.

Spenser.

He was taken into service to a base office in his kitchen; so that he turned a broach, that had Bacon.

worn a crown.

2. To pierce a vessel in order to draw the liquor; to tap.

3. To open any store.

I will notably provide, that you shall want neither weapons, victuals, nor aid; I will open the old armouries, I will breach my store, and bring forth my stores. Knelles.

4. To let out any thing.

And now the field of death, the lists Were enter'd by antagonists,

And blood was ready to be broach'd, When Hudibras in haste approach'd. Hudibras. 5. To give out, or utter any thing.

This errour, that Pison was Ganges, was first broached by Josephus. Raleigh

Those who were the chief instruments of raising the noise, made use of those very opinions themselves had broached, for arguments to prove, that the change of ministers was dangerous. Swift's Examiner, BRO'ACHER. n. s. [from broach.] I. A spit.

The youth approach'd the fire, and, as it

burn'd,

On five sharp broachers rank'd, the roast they turn'd;

These morsels stay'd their stomachs.

Dryden.

2. An opener, or utterer of any thing; the first author.

There is much pride and vanity in the affectation of being the first broacher of an heretical opinion. L'Estrange.

Numerous parties denominate themselves, not from the grand Author and Finisher of our faith, but from the first broacher of their idolized opinions. Decay of Piety. This opinion is commonly, but falsely, as cribed to Aristotle, not as its first broacher, but as its ablest patron. BROAD. adj. [bɲad, Saxon.] Cheyat.

1. Wide; extended in breadth, distinguished from length; not narrow.

The weeds that his broad spreading leaves did shelter

3.

4.

To keep him at a distance from falsehood, and cunning, which has always a broad mixture of falsehood; this is the fittest preparation of a child for wisdom. Lecke.

Clear; open; not sheltered; not affording concealment

In mean time he, with cunning to conceal All thought of this from others, himself bore In broad house, with the wooers, us before.

Chapman. It no longer seeks the shelter of night and darkness, but appears in the broadest light. Decay of Piety. If children were left alone in the dark, they would be no more afraid than in broad sunshine.

Gross; coarse.

Locke.

The reeve and the miller are distinguished from each other, as much as the lady prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed wife of Bath. Dryden.

If open vice be what you drive at, A name so broad will ne'er connive at. Dryden. The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears, Less pleasing far than virtue's very tears. Pope. Room for my lord! three jockeys in his train; Six huntsmen with a shout precede his chair; He grins, and looks broad nonsense with a stare. Pope. 5. Obscene; fulsome; tending to obscenity.

As chaste and modest as he is esteemed, it cannot be denied, but in some places he is broad and fulsome. Dryden. Though now arraign'd, he read with some delight;

Because he seems to chew the cud again,
When his broad comment makes the text too
plain.
Dryden.

6. Bold; not delicate; not reserved.
Who can speak broader than he that has no
house to put his head in? Such may rail against
great buildings.
Shakspeare.
From broad words, and 'cause he fail'd
His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear,
Macduff lives in disgrace.
Shakspeare.
BROAD as long. Equal upon the whole.
The mobile are still for levelling; that is to say,
for advancing themselves: for it is as broad as
long, whether they rise to others, or bring others
down to them.
L'Estrange.
BROAD-CLOTH. n. s. [from broad and
cloth.] A fine kind of cloth.

Thus, a wise taylor is not pinching, But turns at ev'ry seam an inch in: Or else, be sure, your broad-cloth breeches Will ne'er be smooth, nor hold their stitches.

Swift.

BROAD-EYED. adj. [from broad and eye.]
Having a wide survey.

In despite of broad-eyed watchful day,
I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts:
But, ah! I will not.

Shakspeare. BROAD-LEAVED. adj. [from broad and leaf. Having broad leaves.

Narrow and broad-leaved cyprus grass.
Woodward on Fossils.

To BRO'ADEN. v. n. [from broad.] To grow broad. I know not whether this word occurs, but in the following passage.

Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees, Just o'er the verge of day. Thomson. BROADLY. adv. [from broad.] In a broad

1. The side of a ship, distinct from the head or stern.

From vaster hopes than this he seem'd to fall, That durst attempt the British admiral: From her broadsides a ruder flame is thrown, Than from the fiery chariot of the sun. Waller. 2. The volley of shot fired at once from the side of a ship.

3. [In printing.] A sheet of paper containing one large page. BROADSWORD. n. s. [from broad and sword] A cutting sword, with a broad blade.

He, in fighting a duel, was run through the thigh with a broadsword. Wiseman. BROADWISE. adv. [from broad and wise.] According to the direction of the breadth.

If one should, with his hand, thrust a piece of iron broadwise against the flat cieling of his chamber, the iron would not fall as long as the force of the hand perseveres to press against it. Boyle. BROCA'DE. n. s. [brocado, Span.] A silken stuff, variegated with colours of gold or silver.

I have the conveniency of buying and importing rich brocades. Spectator. Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade. Pope. BROCA'DED. adj. [from brocade.] 1. Drest in brocade.

2. Woven in the manner of a brocade. Should you the rich brocaded suit unfold, Where rising flow'rs grow stiff with frosted gold. Gay. BRO'CAGE. n. s. [from broke.]

1. The gain gotten by promoting bargains. Yet sure his honesty

Got him small gains, but shameless flattery, And filthy brocage, and unseemly shifts, And borrow base, and some good ladies gifts. Spenser. 2. The hire given for any unlawful office. As for the politick and wholesome laws, they were interpreted to be but brocage of an usurer, thereby to woo and win the hearts of the people. Bacon.

3. The trade of dealing in old things; the trade of a broker.

Poor poet ape, that would be thought our chief,
Whose works are e'en the frippery of wit,
From brocage is become so bold a thief,
As we, the robb'd, leave rage, and pity it.

Ben Jonson. 4. The transaction of business for other

men.

So much as the quantity of money is lessened, so much must the share of every one that has a right to this money be the less; whether he be landholder, for his goods; or labourer, for his hire; or merchant, for his brocage. Locke. BROCCOLI. n. s. [Italian.] A species of cabbage.

Content with little, I can piddle here On broccoli and mutton round the year; But ancient friends, tho' poor or out of play, That touch my bell, I cannot turn away. Pope. To BROCHE. See To BROACH.

So Geoffry of Bouillon, at one draught of his bow, shooting against David's tower in JerusaCamden. lem, broched three feetless birds. BROCK. n. s. [broc, Sax A badger. BROCKET. n. s. A red deer, two years old. BROGUE. n. s. [brog, Irish.] 1. A kind of shoe.