BRU BRUTALLY. adv. [from brutal.] Churlishly; inhumanly; cruelly. Mrs. Bull aimed a knife at John; though John threw a bottle at her head, very brutally indeed. Arbuthnot. BRUTE. adj. [brutus, Latin.] 1. Senseless; unconscious. Nor yet are we so low and base as their atheism would depress us; not walking statues of clay, not the sons of brute earth, whose final inheritBentley. ance is death and corruption. 2. Savage; irrational; ferine. Even brute animals make use of this artificial way of making divers motions, to have several significations to call, warn, chide, cherish, threaten. Holder. South. In the promulgation of the Mosaick law, if so much as a brute beast touched the mountain, it was to be struck through with a dart. 3. Bestial; in common with beasts. Then to subdue, and quell, through all the earth, Brute violence, and proud tyrannick pow'r. Milt. 4. Rough; ferocious; uncivilized. The brute philosopher, who ne'er has prov'd Pope The joy of loving, or of being lov'd. BRUTE. n. s. [from the adjective.] An irrational creature; a creature without reason; a savage. What may this mean? Language of man pro- By tongue of brute, and human sense express'd! To those three present impulses, of sense, memory, and instinct, most, if not all, the sagacities Hale. of brutes may be reduced. Brutes may be considered as either aerial, terrestrial, aquatick, or amphibious. I call those aerial which have wings, wherewith they can support themselves in the air; terrestrial are upon the earth; those, whose only place of rest is aquatick are those, whose constant abode is upon Locke. the water. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits, know; Or who could suffer being here below? Pope. To BRUTE. v. a. [written ill for bruit.] This, once bruted through the army, filled them all with heaviness. Knolles. himself, by much ado he staggers to his table 4. Ignorant; untaught; uncivilized. They were not so brutish, that they could be I am not so diffident of myself, as brutishly to reason. All other courage, besides that, is not true Or if it be his fate to meet Prior. With folks who have more wealth than wit, He loves cheap port, and double bub, And settles in the humdrum club. BUBBLE. n. s. [bobbel, Dutch ] 1. A small bladder of water; a film of water filled with wind. Bubbles are in the form of a hemisphere; air within, and a little skin of water without; and it seemeth somewhat strange, that the air should rise so swiftly, while it is in the water, and when it cometh to the top, should be stayed by so weak a cover as that of the bubble is. Bacon. The colours of bubbles with which children play, are various, and change their situation variously, without any respect to confine or shadow. Newton. 2. Any thing which wants solidity and firmness; any thing that is more specious than real. The earl of Lincoln was induced to participate, not lightly upon the strength of the proceedings there, which was but a bubble, but upon letters Bacon from the lady Margaret. Then a soldier, Seeking the bubble reputation, War, he 'sung, is toil and trouble, BRUTENESS. n. s. [from brute.] Brutality. 3. A cheat; a false show. Not used. Thou dotard vile, That with thy bruteness shend'st thy comely age. Spenser. To BRU'TIFY.v.a. [from brute.] To make a man a brute. O thou fallacious woman! am I then brutified? Ay; I feel it here; I sprout, I bud, I am ripe horn mad. BRU'TISH, adj. [from brute.] 1. Bestial; resembling a beast. Congreve. Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train, With monstrous shapes and sorceries abus'd Fanstick Egypt, and her priests, to seek Their wand'ring gods disguis'd in brutish forms. Milton. 2. Having the qualities of a brute ; rough; savage; ferocious. Brutes, and brutish men, are commonly more able to bear pain than others. 3. Gross; carnal. Grev. For thou thyself hast been a libertine, 4. Shakspeare. Dryden, Swift. The nation then too late will find, South-sea at best a mighty bubble. Cease, dearest mother, cease to chide; Yet why this great excess of trouble? Prior. He has been my bubble these twenty years, and, to my certain knowledge, understands no more of his own affairs, than a child in swadArbuthnot. dling clothes. To BUBBLE. v. n. [from the noun.] Alas! a crimson river of warm blood, excess, as to make it boil and bubble with extreme heat. Woodward. 2. To run with a gentle noise. For thee the bubbling springs appear'dto mourn, And whispering pines made vows for thy return. Dryden. Not bubbling fountains to the thirsty swain, Not show'rs to larks, or sunshine to the bee, Are half so charming as thy sight to me. Pope. To BUBBLE. v. a. To cheat: a can. word. He tells me, with great passion, that she has bubbled him out of his youth, and has drilled him on to five and fifty. Addison. Charles Mather could not bubble a young beau better with a toy. Arbuthnot. BUBBLER. n. s. [from bubble.] A cheat. What words can suffice to express, how infinitely I esteem you, above all the great ones in this part of the world; above all the Jews, jobbers, and bubblers! Digby to Pope. BU'BBY. n. s. A woman's breast. Foh! say they, to see a handsome, brisk, genteel, young fellow, so much govern'd by a doating old woman; why don't you go and suck the bubby? Arbuthnot. BU'BO. n. s. [Lat. from Bey, the groin.] That part of the groin from the bending of the thigh to the scrotum; and therefore all tumours in that part are called buboes. Quincy. I suppurated it after the manner of a bubo, opened it, and endeavoured detersion. Wiseman. BUBONOCE LE. n. s. [Lat. from Bev, the groin, and xùn, a rupture.] A parti. cular kind of rupture, when the intestines break down into the groin. Quincy. When the intestine, or omentum, falls through the rings of the abdominal muscles into the groin, it is called hernia inguinalis, or if into the scrotum, scrotalis: these two, though the first only is properly so called, are known by the name of bubonocele. BU BUKLE. n. s. A red pimple. Sharp. His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames of fire. Shakspeare. BUCANIERS. n. s. A cant word for the privateers, or pirates, of America. BUCCELLATION. n. s. [buccella, a mouth They conveyed me into a buckbasket; rammed me in with foul shirts, foul stockings, and greasy napkins. Shakspeare. BUCK BEAN. n. s. [bocksboonen, Dutch.] A plant; a sort of trefoil The bitter nauseous plants, as centaury, buckbane, gentian, of which tea may be made, or wines by infusion. Floyer. BUCKET. n. s. [baquet, French.] I The vessel in which water is drawn out of a well. Now is this golden crown like a deep well, That owes two buckets, filling one another; The emptier ever dancing in the air, The other down unseen, and full of water. Sbak. Is the sea ever likely to be evaporated by the sun, or to be emptied with buckets? Bentley. 2. The vessels in which water is carried, particularly to quench a fire. Now streets grow throng'd, and, busy as by day, Some run for buckets to the hallow'd quire; Some cut the pipes, and some the engines play; And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. Dryden. Swift. The porringers that in a row Hung high, and made a glitt'ring show, To a less noble substance chang'd, Were now but leathern buckets rang'd. BUCKLE. n. s. [bavcel, Welsh, and the same in the Armorick; boucle, French.] 1. A link of metal, with a tongue or catch, made to fasten one thing to another. 2. Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. Shakspeare. The chlamys was a sort of short cloak tied with a buckle, commonly to the right shoulder. Arbuthnet. Three seal-rings; which after, meited down, Form'd a vast buckle for his widow's gown. Pope. The state of the hair crisped and curled, by being kept long in the same state. The greatest beau was dressed in a faxen periwig; the wearer of it goes in his own hair at home, and lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Spectator. That live-long wig, which Gorgon's self might own, Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone. Pope ful, Lat.] In some chymical authors, To BUCKLE. v. a. [from the noun.]. signifies a dividing into large pieces. Harris. BUCK. n. s. [bauche, Germ. suds, or lie.] 1. The liquor in which clothes are washed. Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck: I warrant you, buck, and of the season too it shall appear. Shakspeare. 2. The clothes washed in the liquor. Of late, not able to travel with her furred pack, she washes bucks here at home. Shakspeare. BUCK. n. s. [bauch, Welsh; bock, Dutch; bouc, Fr.] The male of the fallow deer; the male of rabbits, and other animals. Bucks, goats, and the like, are said to be tripping or saliant, that is, going or leaping. Peacham. To Buck. v. a. [from the noun.] To wash clothes. Here is a basket; he may creep in here, and throw foul linen upon him, as if it were going to bucking. Shakspeare. To BUCK. v. n. [from the noun.] To copulate as bucks and does. The chief time of setting traps, is in their bucking time. Mortimer. BUCK BASKET. n. s. The basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. I. To fasten with a buckle Like saphire, pearl, in rich embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee. Shakspeart. France, whose armour conscience buckled on, Whom zeal and charity brought to the field. Shakspeare. Thus ever, when I buckle on my helmet, Thy fears aflict thee. Philips. When you carry your master's riding coat wrap your own in it, and buckle them up close with a strap. Swift. 2. To prepare to do any thing: the metaphor is taken from buckling on the ar That the stretching of a span Shakspeare. The wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints, Shakspeare. 2. To buckle to. To apply to; to attend. See the active, 2d sense. Now a covetous old crafty knave, At dead of night, shall raise his son, and cry, Turn cut, you rogue! how like a beast you lie! Go, buckle to the law. Dryden. This is to be done in children, by trying them, when they are by laziness unbent, or by avocation bent another way, and endeavouring to make them buckle to the thing proposed. Locke. 3. To buckle with. To engage with; to encounter; to join in a close fight, like men locked or buckled together. For single combat, thou shalt buckle reith me. Shakspeare. Yet thou, they say, for marriage dost provide; Is this an age to buckle with a bride? Dryden. BUCKLER. 2. s. [bwccled, Welsh; bouclier, Fr.] A shield; a defensive weapon buckled on the arm. He took my arms, and while I forc'd my way Through troops of foes, which did our passage stay; My buckler o'er my aged father cast, Still fighting, still defending, as I past. Dryden. This medal compliments the emperor as the Romans did dictator Fabius, when they called him the buckler of Rome. Addison. To BUCKLER. v. a. [from the noun.] To support; to defend. Fear not, sweet wench; they shall not touch thee, Kate; I'll buckler thee against a million. Shakspeare. Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right, Now buckler falshood with a pedigree? Shaksp. BUCKLER-THORN. n. s. Christ's thorn. BUCKMAST. n. s. The fruit or mast of the beech tree. BU'CKRAM. n. s. [bougran, Fr.] A sort of strong linen cloth, stiffened with gum, used by tailors and staymakers. I have peppered two of them; two, I am sure, I have paid, two rogues in backram suits. Shaks. BU'CKRAMS. n. s. The same with qild garlick. BUCKSHORN PLANTAIN. n. s. [coronopus, Lat. from the form of the leaf.] A plant. Miller. BUCKTHORN. n. s. [rhamnus, Lat. supposed to be so called from bucc, Sax. the belly.] A tree that bears a purging berry. BUCKWHEAT. n. s. [buckweitz, Germ. fagopyrum, Lat.] A plant. Miller. BUCO'LICK. adi. [Boushin, from Box a cowherd.] Pastoral. BUD. n. s. [bouton, Fr.] The first shoot of a plant; a gem. Be as thou wast wont to be, See as thou wast wont to see: Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower Hath such force and blessed power. Shakspeare. Writers as the most forward bud say, Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, In the lime grove which weatherfends your cell, Hudibras. BUDGE. adj. [of uncertain etymology.] Surly; stiff; formal. O foolishness of men! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the stoick fur. Milton. BUDGE. n. s. The dressed skin or fur of lambs. Dict. BU'DGER. n. s. [from the verb.] One that moves or stirs from his place. Let the first budger die the other's lave, And the gods doom him after. Shakspeare. BUDGET. n. s. [bogette, French.] 1. A bag, such as may be easily carried. If tinkers may have leave to live, And bear the sowskin budget; Then my account I well' may give, And in the stocks avouch it. f Shakspeare. Sir Robert Clifford, in whose bosom, or budget, most of Perkin's secrets were laid up, was come into England. His budget with corruptions cramm'd, The contributions of the damn'd. Bacon. Swift. 2. It is used for a store, or stock. It was nature, in fine, that brought off the cat, when the fox's whole budget of inventions failed him. L'Estrange. BUFF. n. s. [from buffalo.] I A sort of leather prepared from the skin of the buffalo; used for waist belts, pouches, and military accoutrements. A ropy chain of rheums, a visage rough, Deform'd, unfeatur'd, and a skin of buff. Drya, Become the unworthy browse Of buffaloes, salt goats, and hungry cows. Dryd. BUFFET. n. s. [buffette, Fr.] A kind of cupboard; or set of shelves, where plate is set out to show, in a room of entertainment. The rich buffet well-coloured serpents grace, And gaping Tritons spew to wash your face. Pope. BUFFET. n. s. [buffeto, Ital.] A blow with the fist; a box on the ear. O, I could divide myself, and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of skimmed milk with so honourable an action. Shakspeare. A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Has ta'en with equal thanks. Shakspeare. Go, baffled coward, lest I run upon thee, And with one buffet lay thy structure low. Milt. Round his hollow temples, and his ears, His buckler beats; the son of Neptune, stunn'd With these repeated buffets, quits the ground. Dryden. To BUFFET. v. a. [from the noun.] To strike with the hand; to box; to beat. Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again; he so buffets himself on the forehead, crying, Peer out, peer out! that any madness, I ever yet beheld, seemed but tameness. Shakspeare. Our ears are cudgell'd; not a word of his But buffets better than a fist of France. Shaksp. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside. Shaksp. Instantly I plung'd into the sea, And buffeting the billows to her rescue, Redeem'd her life with half the loss of mine. Οίτραν. To BUFFET. v. n. To play a boxingmatch. If I might buffet for my love, I could lay on like a butcher. Shakspeare's Henry v. BUFFETER. 2. S. [from buffet.] A boxer; one that buffets. BO'FFLE. n. s. [beufle, Fr.] The same with buffalo; a wild ox. To BO'FFLE. v. n. [from the noun.] To puzzle; to be a loss. This was the utter ruin of that poor, angry, buffing, well-meaning mortal Pistorides, who lies equally under the contempt of both parties. Savift. BUFFLEHEADED adj. [from buffle and head.] Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; foolish. BUFFO'ON. n. s. [buffon, French.] 1. A man whose profession is to make sport, by low jests and antick postures; a jackpudding. No prince would think himself greatly honoured, to have his proclamation canvassed on a publick stage, and become the sport of buffoons. Watts. 2. A man that practises indecent raillery. It is the nature of drolls and buffoons, to be insolent to those that will bear it, and slavish to others. L'Estrange. The bold buffoon whene'er they tread the green, Their motion mimicks, but with jest obscene. Garth. BUFFO'ONERY. n. s. [from buffoon.] I. The practice or art of a buffoon. Courage, in an ill-bred man, has the air, and escapes not the opinion, of brutality; learning becomes pedantry, and wit buffoonery. Locke. 2. Low jests; ridiculous pranks; scurrile mirth. Dryden places the accent, improperly, on the first syllable. Where publick ministers encourage buffoonery, it is no wonder if buffoons set up for publick ministers. L'Estrange And whilst it lasts let buffoonery succeed, To make us laugh; for never was more need. Dryden. BUG. n. s. A stinking insect bred in old household stuff. In the following pas sage, wings are erroneously ascribed to it. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, which stinks and stings. Pope. BUG. n. s. [It is derived by some BUGBEAR. from big, by others from pug; bug, in Welsh, has the same meaning] A frightful object; a walking spectre, imagined to be seen: generally now used for a false terrour to frighten babes. Each trembling leaf and whistling wind they hear, As ghastly bug their hair on end does rear, Yet both do strive their fearfulness to feign. Fairy Queen. Sir, spare your threats; The bug which you would fright me with, I seek. Shakspeare Hast not slept to-night? would he not, naughty man, let it sleep? a bug-bear take him. Shakspeart. We have a horrour for uncouth monsters; but, upon experience, all these bugs grow familiar and easy to us. L'Estrange Such bugbear thoughts, once got into the tender minds of children, sink deep, so as not easily, if ever, to be got out again. Locke. To the world, no bugbear is so great, As want of figure, and a small estate. Pepe. BUGGINESS. n.5. [from buggy.] The state of being infected with bugs. BUGGY.adj. [from bug.] Abounding with bugs. BU'GLE. n. s. [from bugen, Sax. BUGLEHORN. to bend, Skinner; from bucula, Lat. a heifer, Junius; from bugle, the bonasus, Lye.] A hunting horn. Then took that squire an horny bugle small, Which hung adown his side in twisted gold, And tassels gay. Fairy Queen. I will have a recheate winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick. Shaks. He gave his bugle born a blast, That through the woodland echoed far and wide. Ticke BU'GLE. n. s. A shining bead of black glass. Chronicles. When usurers tell their gold in the field, And whores and bawds do churches build. Shaks. 2. To raise in any laboured form. When the head-dress was built up in a couple of cones and spires, which stood so excessively high on the side of the head, that a woman, who was but a pigmy without her head-dress, appeared like a Colossus upon putting it on. Spectator. 3. To raise any thing on a support or foundation. Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies; Choose this face, chang'd by no deformities. Donne. I would endeavour to destroy those curious, but groundless structures, that men have built up of opinions alone. To BUILD. v. n. 1. To play the architect. Boyle. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend. Pope. 2. To depend on; to rest on. By a man's authority, we here understand the force which his word hath for the assurance of Hooker. another's mind that buildeth upon it. Some build rather upon the abusing of others, and putting tricks upon them, than upon soundBacon. ness of their own proceedings. Even those who had not tasted of your favours, yet built so much on the fame of your beneficence, that they bemoaned the loss of their Dryden. expectations. This is certainly a much surer way, than to build on the interpretations of an author, who does not consider how the ancients used to think. Addison. BUILDER. 7. s. [from build.] He that builds; an architect. But fore-accounting oft makes builders miss; They found, they felt, they had no lease of bliss. Sidney. When they which had seen the beauty of the first temple built by Solomon, beheld how far it excelled the second, which had not builders of like abilities, the tears of their grieved eyes the prophets endeavoured, with comforts, to wipe Hocker. away. Mark'd out for such an use, as if 't were meant T'invite the builder, and his choice prevent. Denbam. Her wings with lengthen'd honour let her And, by her greatness, shew her builder's fame. Thy sumptuous buildings, and thy wife's attire, That fabrick rises high as heav'n, Prior. 1. The form; the structure. As is the built, so different is the fight; 2. Species of building. There is hardly any country which has so little shipping as Ireland; the reason must be, the scarcity of timber proper for this built. Temple. BULB. n. s. [from bulbus, Lat.] A round body, or root. Take up your early autumnal tulips, and bulbs, if you will remove them. Evelyn's Kalendar. If we consider the bulb, or ball of the eye, the exteriour membrane, or coat thereof, is made thick, tough, or strong, that it is a very hard Ray. matter to make a rupture in it. BULBA'CEOUS. adj. [bulbaceus, Lat.] The 1 Dict. same as bulbous. BU'LBOUS. adj. [from bulb.] Containing bulbs; consisting of bulbs; having round or roundish knobs. There are of roots, bulbous roots, fibrous roots, and hirsute roots. And I take it, in the bulbous, the sap hasteneth most to the air and sun. Bacon. Set up your traps for vermin, especially amongst your bulbous roots. Evelyn's Kalendar. Their leaves, after they are swelled out, like a bulbous root, to make the bottle, bend inward, or come again close to the stalk. To BULGE. v. n. [It was originally written bilge; bilge was the lower part of the ship, where it swelled out; from bilig, Saxon, a bladder.] Ray. 1. To take in water; to founder. 2. To jut out. The side, or part of the side of a wall, or any timber that bulges from its bottom or foundation, is said to batter, or hang over the foundation. Moxon's Mechanical Exercises. BU'LIMY. [Buín, from Bs, an ox, and , hunger.] An enormous appetite, attended with fainting, and coldness of the extremities. Diet. BULK. n.s. [bulcke, Dutch, the breast, or largest part of a man.] 1. Magnitude of material substance; mass. Against these forces there were prepared near one hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion, and more serviceable. Bacon's War with Spain. The Spaniards and Portuguese have ships of great bulk; but fitter for the merchant than the man of war, for burden than for battle. Raleigh. Though an animal arrives at its full growth at a certain age, perhaps it never comes to its full bulk till the last period of life. Arbuthnot. 2. Size; quantity. Things, or objects, cannot enter into the mind as they subsist in themselves, and by their own natural bulk pass into the apprehension; but they are taken in by their ideas. South. 3. The gross; the majority; the main mass. Those very points, in which these wise men, |