A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names

[ F 559. Fate, far, fall, fat BOTTLEFLOWER, bôtítl-flðu-tr. s. A plant. BOTTLESCREW, bot'tl-skröô. s. A screw to pull out the cork.

BOTTOM, bôt'tům. s. 166. The lowest part of any thing; the ground under the water; the foundation, the groundwork; a dale, a valley; the deepest part; bound, limit; the utmost of any man's capacity; the last resort; a vessel for navigation; a chance, or security; a ball of|| thread wound up together. To BOTTOM, bôt tům. v. a. upon as a support; to wind To BOTTOM, bỏt‍täm. v. n. support. BOTTOMED, hôt'tùm'd. a. 359.

tom.

To build up, to fix upon something. To rest upon as its

BOTTOMLESS, bôt'tâm-lès. a. tom, fathomless.

Having a bot

Without a bot

;—mẻ, mét ;pine, pin ;

To BOUSE, booze. v. n. To drink lavishly.
BOUSY, boo'zè. a. Drunken.

BOUT, boût. s. A turn, as much of an action as
is performed at one time.
To BOW, boù. v. a. To bend or inflect; to bend
the body in token of respect or submission; to
bend, or incline, in condescension; to depress,

to crush.

To BOW, bỏù. v. a. To bend, to suffer flexure, to make a reverence; to stoop; to sink under

pressure.

BÓW, hỏa. s. An act of reverence or submission. BOW, bò. s. An instrument of war; a rainbow; the instrument with which string instruments are played upon; the doubling of a string in a slip knot; Bow of a ship, that part of her which begins at the loof, and ends at the sternmost part of the forecastle.

BOTTOMRY, bot'tam-rẻ. s. The act of borrow-To ing money on a ship's bottom.

BOUD, boud. s. An insect which breeds in
malt.

To BOUGE, bôôdje. v. n. 315. To swell out.
BOUGH, bôù. s. 313. An arm or a large shoot

of a tree.

BOUGHT, bawt. 319. Preter. of To buy. To BOUNCE, bôûnse. v. n. To fall or fly against any thing with great force; to make a sudden leap; to boast, to bully.

BOUNCE, boünse. s. A strong sudden blow; a sudden crack or noise; a boast, a threat. BOUNCER, bóûn'sûr. s. A boaster, a bully, an empty threatener; a liar.

BOUND, bôând. s. 313. A limit, a boundary; a limit by which any excursion is restrained; a leap, a jump, a spring; a rebound.

To BOUND, bound. v. a. To limit, to terminate;
to restrain, to confine; to make to bound.
To BOUND, bound. v. n. To jump, to spring;
to rebound, to fly back.

BOUND, bound. Participle passive of Bind.
BOUND, bound a. Destined, intending to come
to any place.
BOUNDARY, bổûn'dâ-rè. s. Limit, bound.
BOUNDEN, böûn'dên. Participle passive of

BOUNTEOUS, bôûn'tché-as. a. 263. Liberal, kind, generous.

BOUNTEOUSLY, bỏản'tchè-as-lè. ad. Liberally, generously.

BOUNTEOUSNESS, bôdn'tchè-us-nês. s. Munificence, liberality.

BOUNTIFUL, boun'tè-ful. a. Liberal, generous, munificent.

BOUNTIFULLY, böûn'tè-fûl-lè. ad. Liberally.
BOUNTIFULNESS, bỏân'tè-fôl-nés. S. The
quality of being bountiful, generosity.
BOUNTHHEAD, böùn'tè-héd.
BOUNTIHOOD, bỏùn'tè-hud.
Goodness, virtue.

I have differed from Mr. Sheridan and Dr. Kenrick in the pronunciation of this word. They make it sound as if written boorn; but if my memory fail me not, it is a rhyme to mourn upon the stage; and Mr. Garrick so pronounced it. That undiscover'd country, from whose bourn || No traveller returns.'-Shakspeare's Hamlet. I am fortuned in this pronunciation by the suffrages of Met Elphinstone, Mr. Nares and Mr. Smith

EOW, bo. To bend sideways.

While some words are narrowing and contracting their original signification, others are dividing and subdividing into a thousand different acceptations. The verb to bow, rhyming with cow, might originally signify flexure every way, and so serve for that action which made any thing crooked, let its direction be what it would but it appears certain, that at present it only means that flexure which is vertical, and which may be called a bowing down, but is by no means so applicable to that flexure which is sideways or horizontal, and for which, necessity seems insensibly to have brought the verb I have inserted into use. This verb seems accompanied by the word out as the other is by down, and we may say such a thing bows down, but another thing bows out, or swells sideways; the first verb is pronounced so as to rhyme with cow, now, &c. and the last with go, no, &c. Milton seems to have used the word with this sound, where in his Penseroso he says"And love the high embowed roof, "With antique pillars' massy proof." But as nothing can tend more to the ambiguity of language than to have words spelled in the same manner sounded differently in order to distinguish their meaning by their pronunciation, I would humbly advise to spell the word bow, (to shoot with.) and the verb to how (to bend sideways,) with the finale; this slight addition will relieve a reader from the embarrassment he is under at first sight, where he is not thoroughly acquainted with the circumstances of a relation, and does not know how to pronounce the word till he has read the context. For the propriety of this additional e, see the words Bowl and FORM.

I cannot refrain from quoting Mr. Nares on this word, as his opinion has great authority:-" A "bow for arrows, and to bow, when it signifies "merely to bend any thing, have ow like & long. "This distinction I believe to be right, though "our great Lexicographer has not noticed it "He gives to bone, in every sense, the regular "sound of ow, (that is rhyming with cor) But "of this instance the first and fourth appear to "be erroneous; the third is doubtful; and in "the second, the word is used to express an in"clination of the body, but metaphorically ap"plied to trees. See the four instances from "Shakspeare, Dryden, and Locke, under To "bow, v. a. No. 1."

A want of attending to the different ideas the word bow conveys, as it is differently sounded, has occasioned the inconsistent sea terms; the bow of a ship, rhyming with cow, and an anchor, called the best bower, rhyming with hour; and bow, in the word bowsprit, rhyming with go, no, &c. BOW-BENT, bỏ bênt. a. BOW-HAND, bo hand. s. The hand that draws the bow.

Crooked.

BOW-LEGGED, bo'legd. a. 359. Having crook ed legs.

—no, môve, nỗr, nót;—tube, tỏi, bull;—ỏi;—pound;—thin, TH13.

trade is to make bows.

BOX, boks. s. A tree; the wood of it.

BOWELS, bód'els. 8. Intestines, the vessels || BOWYER, bo'yår. s. 98. An archer; one whose and organs within the body; the inner parts of any thing; tenderness, compassion. BOWER, bou ár. s. 93. An arbour: it seems to signify, in Spenser, a blow, a stroke. BOWER, bỏả år. s. Anchor so called.

BOWERY, bỏù år-ré. a. Full of bowers.
BOWL, bole. s. A vessel to hold liquids; the
hollow part of any thing; a basin, a fountain.
-See the next word.
BOWL, bole. s. Round mass rolled along the
ground.

BOX, boks. s. A case made of wood, or other
matter, to hold any thing; the case of the mari-
ner's compass; the chest into which money
given is put; seat in the play-house.

To BOX, bôks. v. a. To enclose in a box.
BOX, bôks. s. A blow on the head given with the
hand.

To BOX, boks. v. n. To fight with the fist.
BOXEN, bôk'sn. a. 103. Made of box, resembling

box.

BOXER, bôks'år. s. A man who fights with his
fists.

BOY, bỏè. s. 482. A male child, not a girl; one in
the state of adolescence, older than an infant;
a word of contempt for young men.
BOYHOOD, boe hud. s. The state of a boy.
BOYISH, bổè ́ish. a. Belonging to a boy; child-
ish, trifling.

BOYISM, bôè izm. s. Puerility, childishness.
BRABBLE, bråb'bl. s. 405. A clamorous contest.
To BRABBLE, bråb'bl. v. n. To contest noisily
BRABBLER, bråb'lur. s. A clamorous noisy
fellow.

To BRACE, bråse. v. a. To bind, to tie close with
bandages; to strain up.

BRACE, brase. s. Cincture, bandage; that which
holds any thing tight; Braces of a coach, thick
straps of leather on which it hangs; Braces in
printing, a crooked line enclosing a passage, as
in a triplet; tension, tightness.
BRACE, brase. s. A pair, a couple.
BRACELET, bråse'lêt. s. An ornament for the

Many respectable speakers pronounce this word so as to rhyme with howl, the noise made by a dog. Dr. Joanson, Mr. Elphinstone, and Mr. Perry, declare for it; but Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Scott, Dr. Kenrick, and Mr. Smith, pronounce it as the vessel to hold liquor, rhyming with we. I remember having been corrected|| by Mr. Garrick for pronouncing it like howl; and am upon the whole of opinion, that pronouncing it as I have marked it, is the prefera-BOYISHLY, boe 1sh-lè. ad. Childishly, triflingly. bir mode, though the least analogical. But as BOYISHNESS, bỏèîsh-nês. s. Childishness, the vessel has indisputably this sound, it is ren- tridingness. dering the language still more irregular to give the ball a diferent one. The inconvenience of this regularity is often perceived in the word ; to have the same word signify different things, is the fate of all languages; but pronouncing the same word differently to signify diferent things, is multiplying difficulties without necessity; for though it may be alleged fit a different pronunciation of the same word to signify a diferent thing is in some measure remedying the poverty and ambiguity of language, it may be answered, that it is in reality increasing the ambiguity by setting the eye and ear at variance, and obliging the reader to un- || derstand the context before he can pronounce the word It may be urged, that the Greek and I have, in the pronunciation of this word, Lan languages had these ambiguities in words made the a long and slender, as in brace, as which were only distinguishable by their quan- find it in Dr. Kenrick, W. Johnston, Mr. Perry, tity or accent. But it is highly probable that and Mr. Scott; and not short as in brass, as Mr the Greek language had a written accent to Sheridan has marked it; and which, I believe, d stnguish such words as were pronounced is the prevailing pronunciation in Ireland: for dierently to signify different things, and though many compounds shorten the vowel in this is equivalent to a different spelling; and the simple, as is shown at large in the Principles Lough the Latin word lego signified either of Pronunciation, 308, 515; yet I think such to rrad of to send, according to the quan- words are exceptions as are only diminutives, tity with which the first syllable was pro- plurals, and feminines.-See PATRONESS. nounced, it was certainly an imperfection || BRACEŔ, brå sår. s. 93. A cincture, a bandage in that language which ought not to be imita- BRACH, bråtsh. s. 352. A bitch hound. and Ideas and combinations of ideas will al-BRACHIAL, bråk'yal. a. 353. Belonging to the ways be more numerous than words; and there- arm. fore the same word will often stand for very dif-| BRACHYGRAPHY, brâ-kig'grâ-fè. s. The art ferent ideas: but altering the sound of a word or practice of writing in a short compass. 353. without altering the spelling, is forming an un-BRACK, bråk. s. A breach.

written language.

To BOWL. bole. v. a. To play at bowls; to
throw bowls at any thing.
POWLER, bos. He that plays at bowls.
DOWLINE, bo fin. s. A rope fastened to the
midle part of the outside of a sail.
BOWLING-GREEN, boʻling-gréén. s. A level
gree of ground, kept smooth for bowlers.
BOWMAN, bo min. s. 88. An archer.
BOWSPRIT, bu'sprit. s. Boltsprit; which see.
BOWSTRING, bo string. s. The string by which
the how is kept bent.
BOW WINDOW, to windồ.

arms.

BRACKET, bråk'kit. s. 99. A piece of wood fixed
for the support of something.
BRACKISH, bråk'ish. a. Salt, something salt
BRACKISHNESS, bråk ish-nês. s. Saltness.
BRAD, brâd. s. A sort of nail to floor rooms with.
To BRAG, bråg. v. n. To boast, to display osten-
tatiously.

BRAG, brag. s. A boast, a proud expression; the
thing boasted.

BRAGGADOCIO, brâg-gâ-do'shè-d. s. A puffing, boasting fellow.

BRAGGART, bràg'gårt. a. 88. Boastful, vainly
ostentatious.

BRAGGART, bråg'gårt. s. A boaster.
BRAGGER, bråg går. s. 98. A boaster.
BRAGLESS, bråglés. a. Without a boast.
BRAGLY, brág lé. ad. Finely.
To BRAID, bråde. v. a. To weave together
BRAID, bråde, s. A texture, a knot.
BRAILS, brálz. s. Small ropes reeved through
blocks.

K' Dr. Johnson derives this word, and, perhaps,|| justly, from Bry-window, or a window forming a day in the internal part of the room; but preseat custom has universally agreed to call these windows bow-windows, from the curve, like a bow, which they form by jutting outwards. However original and just, therefore, Dr. Johnson's derivation may be, there is little hope of a conformats to it, either in writing or pronunciation,|| BRAIN, brane. s. That collection of vessels and while there is apparently so good an etymology, both for sense and sound, to support the present practice-See To Bow.

organs in the head, from which seuse and mo. tion arise; the understanding.

To BRAIN, brane. v. n. To kill by beating out the brain

I 559.-Fåte, får, fall, fât,-mè, mêt ;-plne, pin,-
BRAINISH, bråne'ish. a. Hotheaded, furious.
BRAINLESS, brane-lês. a. Silly.

BRAINPAN, brane'pân. s. The skull containing||

the brains.

BRAINSICK, bråne'sk. a. Addleheaded, giddy. BRAINSICKLY, bråne'sik-lè. ad. Weakly, headily.

BRAVELY, brave'lè. ad. In a brave manuer, courageously, gallantly.

BRAVERY, bra vùr-rè. s. 555. Courage, inagna ninity; splendour, magnificence; show, ostentation; bravado, boast.

BRAVO, bra'vo. s. Spanish. A man who murders for hire.

BRAINSICKNESS, brane'sik-nês. s. Indiscre-To BRAWL, brawl. v. n. To quarrel noisily and

tion, giddiness.

ERAKE, brake. The preterit of Break.
BRAKE, brake. s. Fern, brambles.

BRAKE, brake. s. An instrument for dressing
hemp or flax; the handle of a ship's pump; a
baker's kneading-trough.

BRAKY, brá ́ké. a. Thoray, prickly, rough. BRAMBLE, bråm bl. s. 405. Black-berry bush, dewberry bush, raspberry bush; any rough|| prickly shrub.

indecently; to speak loud and indecently; to make a noise.

BRAWL, brawl. s. Quarrel, noise, scurrility. BRAWLER, bråw lår. s. A wrangler. BRAWN, brawn. s. The fleshy or musculous part of the body; the arm, so called from its being musculous; bulk, muscular strength; the flesh of a boar; a boar. BRAWNER, braw'når. s. A boar killed for the

table.

BRAMBLING, brâm'bling. s. A bird; called also|| BRAWNINESS, bråw'nè-nês. s. Strength, hard

a mountain chadlinch.

BRAN, brån. s. The husks of corn ground.
BRANCH, bråntsh. s. 352, 73. The shoot of a||
tree from one of the main boughs; any distant
article; any part that shoots out from the rest;
a smaller river running into a larger; any part|
of a family descending in a collateral line; the
offspring, the descendant; the antlers or shoots
of a stag's horn.

ness.

BRAWNY, bråw'nè. a. Musculous, fleshy, bulky. To BRAY, bra. v. a. To pound, or grind small. To BRAY, brà. v. n. To make a noise as an ass; to make an offensive noise. BRAY, brå. 8. Noise, sound. BRAYER, brå år. s. One that brays like an ass; with printers, an instrument to temper

the ink.

BRAZE, braze. v. a. To soluer with brass, to harden to impudence.

BRAZEN, brá zn. a. 103. Made of brass; proceeding from brass; impudent.

To BRANCH, brântsh. v. n. To spread in branch-To
es; to spread into separate parts; to speak
diffusively; to have horns shooting out.
To BRANCH, brântsh. v. a. To divide as into
branches; to adorn with needle-work.
BRANCHER, bràn'tshur. s. One that shoots out
into brauches; in falconry, a young hawk.
BRANCHINESS, brån'she-nés. s. Fuiness of
branches.

BRANCHLESS, brånsh'lês. a. Without shoots
or boughs; naked.

BRANCHY, brân'shè. a. Full of branches, spreading.

BRAND, brånd. s. A stick lighted, or fit to be lighted; a sword; a thunderbolt; a mark made) by burning with a hot iron.

To BRAND, brând. v. a. To mark with a note of infam

BRANDGOOSE, brand'go3s. s. A kind of wild

BRASIER, brå'zhûr. s. 23. A manufacturer that works in brass; a pan to hold coals. BRASIL, or BRAZIL, brå zèêl'. s. An American wood, commonly supposed to have been thus denominated, because first brought from Brasil. BRASS, bras. s. A yellow metal, made by mixing copper with lapis calaminaris; impudence. BRASSINESS, brås'st-nés. 8. An appearance like brass.

BRASSY, bras'sé. a. Partaking of brass; hard, as brass; impudent.

BRAT, brat. s. A child, so called in contempt;
the progeny, the offspring.
BRAVADO, brá-vá dó. s. A boast, a brag.-See
LUMBAGO.

BRAVE, brave. a. Courageous, daring, bold: gallant; having a noble mien; magnificent, grand; excellent, noble

BRAVE, brave. s. Á hector, a man daring beyond prudence or fitness; a boast, a challenge. To BRAVE, brave. v. a. To defy, to challenge;) to carry a boasting appearance.

To BRAZEN, brá zn. v. n. To be impudent; to bully.

BRAZENFACE, brå'zn-fase. s. An impudent

wretch.

BRAZENFACED, brá'zn-faste. a. 359. Impudent, shameless.

BRAZENNESS, brá zn-nes. s. Appearing like brass; impudence.

BRAZIER, brize'yûr. s. 283. See BRASIER. BREACH. breetsh. s. The act of breaking any thing; the state of being broken; a gap in a fortification made by a battery; the violation of a law or contract; difference, quarrel; infraction, injury.

BREAD, bred. s. Food made of ground corn, food in general: support of life at large. BREADCHIPPER, biêd'tship-år. s. A baker's

or open by force; to divide; to destroy by vio lence; to overcome, to surmount; to batter, to make breaches or gaps in; to crush or destroy the strength of the body; to sink or appal the spirit; to subdue; to crush, to disable, to incr pacitate; to weaken the mind; to tame, to train to obedience; to make bankrupt; to crack the skin; to violate a contract or pro mise; to infringe a law; to intercept, to hinder the effect of; to interrupt; to separate company; to dissolve any union; to open something new; To break the back, to disable one's fortune; To break ground, to open trenches; To break the heart, to destroy with grief; To break the neck, to lux, or put out the neck joints; To break off, to put a sudden stop; To break off, to dissolve; To break up, to separate or disband; To break upon the wheel, to punish by stretching a criminal upon the wheel, and breaking his bones with bats; To break wind, to give vent to wind in the body.

To BREAK, bråke. v. n. To part in two; to burst by dashing, as waves on a rock; to open and discharge matter; to opeu as the morning to burst forth, to exclaim; to become bankrupt; to decline in health and strength; to make way with some kind of suddenness; to

-nỏ, môve, når, nôt ;-tåbe, tub, båll ;—ôù ;-pound ;--thin, THIS.

Come to an explanation; to fall out, to be
friends no longer; to discard; To break from,
to separate from with some vehemence; To
break in, to enter unexpectedly; To break
loose, to escape from captivity; To break off,
to desi-t suddenly; To break off from, to part
from with violence; To break out, to discover
itself in sudden efects; To break out, to have
eruptions from the body; To break out, to be-
come dissolute; To break up, to cease, to in-
termit; To break up, to dissolve itself; To
break up, to begin holidays; To break with,!
to part friendship with any.

BREAK, brake. s. State of being broken, open-
ing; a pause, an interruption; a line drawn,
uoting that the sense is suspended.
BREAKER, brikår. s. He that breaks any
thing; a wave broken by rocks or sand-banks.
To BREAKFAST, brek fast. v. n. 234, 515.
To eat the first meal in the day.
BREAKFAST, brêk fast. s. 58. The first meal
in the day; the thing eaten at the first meal;
a mea! in general.

BREAKNECK, brake'nok. S. A steep place
end ugering the neck.

fy by education; to bring up, to take care of.
To BREED, brèèd. v. n. To bring young; to
increase by new production; to be produced,
to have birth; to raise a breed.
BREED, brèèd. s. A cast, a kind, a subdivision
of species; progeny, offspring; a number pro-
duced at once, a hatch.
BREEDBATE, brèèd båte. s. One that breeds
quarrels.

BREEDER, brèèd'ar. s. 98. That which pro
duces any thing; the person which brings up
another; a female that is prolifick, one that
takes care to raise a breed.
BREEDING, breeding. s. Education, instruc
tion; qualifications; manners, knowledge of
ceremony; nurture.

BREEZE, brèèz. S. A stinging fly.
BREEZE, brèèz. s. A gentle gale.
BREEZY, brée zè. ad. Fanned with gales.
BRET, brêt. s. A fish of the turbot kind.
BRETHREN, breтH'rên. s. The plural ofbrother.
BREVIARY, brève'ya-rè. s. 507. An abridg.
ment, an epitome; the book containing the
daily service of the church of Rome.

All our orthoepists but Mr. Perry pronounce the first syllable of this word long; but if au thority were silent, analogy would decide for the pronunciation I have given. 534. BREVIAT, brève'yȧt. s. 113. A short compen

dium.

BREAKPROMISE, brake prom-is. s. One that makes a practice of breaking his promise. EREAM, brème. s. The name of a fish. BREAST, brist. s. The middle part of the human body, between the neck and the belly the dugs or teats of women, which contain the m, the part of a beast that is under the neck, between the fore legs; the heart; the con-BREVITY, brêvé-te. s. 511. Conciseness, shortscience: the passions.

To BREAST. Lēst. v. a. To meet in front. BREASTBONE, brẻstbone. s. The bone of the breast, the sternum.

BREASTHIGH, brest hl. a. Up to the breast. BREASTHOOKS, brest hooks. s. With shipwrights, the compassing timbers before, that hip to strengthen the stem and all the forepart of the ship.

BREASTK NOT, brẻst'nôt. s. A knot or bunch of tibands worn by the women on the breast. BREASTPLATE, brist plåte. s. Armour for

BREASTPLOUGH, brẻst'pl3å. S. A plough used parmig turf, drisen by the breast. BREASTWORK, brestwärk. 8. Works thrown as high as the breast of the defendants. BREATH, broch 457. The air drawn in and ejected out of the body; life; respiration; Lopate, poupe, relaxation; breeze, moving air; angle ar an instant.

TO BREATHE, bièrнe. v. n. 437. To draw in and throw out the air by the lungs; to live; to rest, to take breath; to inject by breathing; to eest by imeathing; to exercise; to move or atuate by bath, to utter privately; to give

BREATHER, brè'Tuůr. s. One that breathes,

BAEATHING, biè'rning. 8. Aspiration; secret
paver: brething place, vent.
BREATHLESS, bréfklės. a. Out of breath,
wheat will labour; dead.
B.D. and Particip, pass, from To breed.
EKEDE, brede. $.-ce BRAID.
BREECH. bretsh. s. 217. The lower part of
the body, brieches; the hinder part of a piece

To BREECH. brẻ stah. v. 247. To put into
berhes; to it any thug with a breech, as to
bh a gun.

BALLA HES, britchlz. s. 217. 99. The gar-
ment worn by men over the lower part of the
to wear the breeches, is, in a wife, to
w the authority of the husband.
To bht D, breed. v. a. To procreate, to ge-
nes air to occasion, to canse, to produce, to
contrive, to hatch, to plot; to produce, from
eres self, to give birth to ; to educate, to quali-

BREVIATURE, brève'yâ-tshåre. s. An abbreviation. 465, 113.

ness.

To BREW, brôð. v. a. 339. To make liquors
by mixing several ingredients; to prepare by
mixing things together; to contrive, to plot.
To BREW, broô. v. n. To perform the office of

a brewer.

BREWAGE, broodje. s. 90. Mixture of various things.

BREWER, bro'år. s. A man whose profession it is to make beer.

BREWHOUSE, brod'hôûs. s. A house appropriated to brewing.

BREWING, broo ng. s. 410. Quantity of liquor brewed.

BREWIS, brools. s. A piece of bread soaked in boiling fat pottage, made of salted meat. BRIEE, bribe. s. A reward given to pervert the judgment.

To BRIBE, be, v. a. To give hribes. ERIBER, bribur. s. 93. One that pays for corrupt practices.

BRIBERY, br bur-re. s. 555. The crime of
giving or taking rewards for bad practices.
BRICK, brik. s. A mass of burnt clay; a loaf
shaped like a brick.

To BRICK, brik. v. a. To lay with bricks.
BRICKBAT, Erik bit. s. A piece of brick.
BRICKCLAY, brik alá. s. Clay used for making
bricks.

BRICK DUST, brik dust. s. Dust made by pound-
ing bricks.
BRICK-KILN, brk kl. s. A kiln, a place to
burn bricks in.
BRICKLAYER, brik-ür. 8. A brick mason.
BRICKMAKER, brik'mà-kår. 8. One whose
trade it is to make bricks.
BRIDAL, bridal. a. Belonging to a wedding,
muptial.

BRIDE, bride. s. A woman new married.
BRIDEEED, bride bed. s. Marriage bed.
BRIDECAKE. bride kåke, s. A cake distributed
to the guests at the wedding.
BRIDEGROOM, bride'gröś. s. A new-marri

ed man
BRIDEMEN, bride'mån.
s. The attend-
BRIDEMAIDS, bilde'mådz.
auts on the bride and bridegroom.
BRIDESTAKE, bride stake. s. A post set in the
ground to dance round. ·

559.-Fate, får, fåll, fåt;—mè, mêt ;-plne, pln‚

the sea, tears.

BRIDEWELL, bride'wel. s. A house of correc-||BRINE, brine. s. Water impregnated with salt,
tion.
BRIDGE, bridje. s. A building raised over wa-
ter for the convenience of passage; the upper
part of the nose; the supporter of the strings
in stringed instruments of musick.

To BRIDGE, bridje. v. a. To raise a bridge
over any place.

BRIDLE, bi'dl. s. 405. The headstall and reins
by which a horse is restrained and governed ;
a restraint, a curb, a check.

To BRIDLE, bri'dl. v. a. To guide by a bridle;
to restrain, to govern.

To BRIDLE, bri'di. v. n. To hold up the head.
BRIDLEHAND, bri'dl-hånd. s. The hand which
holds the bridle in riding.

BRIEF, breef. a. Short, concise; contracted,

narrow.

BRIEF, brèèf. s. A short extract, or epitome ;
the writing given the pleaders, containing the
case; letters patent, giving license to a charit-
able collection; in musick, a measure of quan-
tity, which contains two strokes down in beat-||
ing time, and as many up.

BRIEFLY, breeflè. ad. Concisely, in few words.
BRIEFNESS, breef'nês. s. Conciseness, short-

ness.

BRIER, brl'år. s. 98, 413. A plant.

BRIERY, brl'ur-rè. a. 555. Rough; full of
briers.

BRIGADE, bre-gade'. s. 117. A division of
forces; a body of men.
BRIGADIER General, brîg-â-dèèr'. s. An officer
next in order below a major-general. 275.
BRIGANDINE, brig'ân-dine. 150.
BRIGANTINE, brig'an-time.
A light
vessel, such as was formerly used by corsairs
and pirates; a coat of mail.

All our orthoepists sound the last i in this
word long; and yet my memory fails me if the
stage does not pronounce it short; a pronun-
ciation to which the stage is very prone, as Vul-
entine, Cymbeline, &c. are heard on the stage as
if written Falentin, Cumbelin, Sze.

"You may remember, scarce three years are past,
"When in your brigantine you sail'd to see
"The Adriatick wedded by our Duke,
"And I was with you."--Venice Preserved.
BRIGHT, brae. Shining, glittering, full of
light; clear, evident; illustrious, as a bright
reign; witty, acute, as a bright genius.
To BRIGHTEN, britn. v. a. 103. To make||
bright, to make to shine; to make luminous by
light from without; to make gay, or alert; to||
nake illustrious; to make acute.

To BRIGHTEN, britn. v. n. To grow bright,|
to clear up.

BRIGHTLY, brite lè ad. Splendidly, with lustre. LRIGHTNESS, brite'nês. s. Lustre, splendour; acuteness.

BRINEPIT, brine'plt. s. Pit of salt water
To BRING, bring. v. a. 408, 409. To fetch from
another place; to convey in one's own hand,
not to send; to cause to come; to attract, to
draw along; to put into any particular state;
to conduct to induce, to prevail upon; To
bring about, to bring to pass, to effect; To
bring forth, to give birth to, to produce; To
bring in, to reclaim; To bring in, to afford
gain; To bring off, to clear, to procure, to be
acquitted; To bring on, to engage in action,
To bring over, to draw to a new party; To
bring out, to exhibit, to show; To bring under
to subdue, to repress; To bring up, to educate,
to instruct; To bring up, to bring into practice.
BRINGER, bring år. s. 409. The person that
brings any thing.
BRINISH, bri'nish.
a. Having the state of
brine, salt.
BRINISHNESS, bri'nish-nês. s. Saltness.
BRINK, brink. s. The edge of any place, as of
a precipice or a river.
BRINY, brně. a. Salt.

BRISK, brisk. a. Lively, vivacious, gay; power-
ful, spiritous; vivid, bright.
BRISKET, bris kit. s. 99. The breast of an ani
mal.

BRISKLY, brisk'le. ad. Actively, vigorously.
BRISKNESS, brisk'nes. s. Liveliness, vigour,
quickness; gaiety.
BRISTLE, bris'si. s. 405, 472.

swine.

The stiff hair of

To erect in bristles. v. n. To stand erect as

To BRISTLE, bris'sl. v. a.
To BRISTLE, bris'sl.
bristles.

BRISTLY, bris'le. a. Thick set with bristles.
BRISTOL STONE, bris'tôl-stone. s. A kind of
soft diamond found in a rock near the city of
Bristol.

BRIT, brit. s. The name of a fish.
BRITTLE, br't'tl. a. 405. Fragile, apt to break.
BRITTLENESS, brit'tl-nês. 8. Aptness to
break.

BRIZE, brize. s. The gadfly.
BROACH, brotsh. s. 295. A spit.
To BROACH, brish. v. a. To spit, to pierce as
with a spit; to pierce a vessel in order to draw
the liquor; to open any store; to give out, to
utter any thing.
BROACHER, brotsh'ûr. s.
A spit; an opener,
or utterer of any thing.
BROAD, brawd." a. 295. Wide, extended in
breadth; large; clear, open; gross, coarse;
obscene, fulsome; bold, not delicate, not re-
served.

BROAD CLOTH, bråwd'cloth. s. A fine kind of
cloth.

To PROADEN, bråw'dn. v. n. 103.
broad.

To grow

BRILLIANCY, bril'vân-sè. s. Lustre, splendour.) BRILLIANT, brilyant. a. 113. Shining, spark-BROADLY, briwdle. ad. In a broad manner. ling. BROADNESS, brawd'nès. s. Breadth, extent from side to side; coarseness, fulsomeness. BROADSIDE, brawd'side. s. The side of a ship; the volley of shot fired at once from the side of a ship.

BRILLIANT, brilyant. s. A diamond of the finest cut.

BRILLIANTNESS, bril'y ânt-nês. s. Splendour,

lustre.

BRIM, brim. s. The edge of any thing; the up-BROADSWORD, bråwd'sord. 8. A cutting

per edge of any vessel; the top of any liquor;
the bank of a fountain.

To BRIM, brim v. a. To fill to the top.
To BRIM, brim. v. n. To be full to the brim.
BRIMFUL, brimful. a. Full to the top.
BRIMFULNESS, brimful-nés. s. Fulness to
the top.

sword, with a broad blade.

BROADWISE, brawd wize. ad. 140. According
to the direction of the breadth.
BROCADE, bró-kåde'. s. A silken stuff varie-
gated.

BROCADED, brò-kå'ded. a. Drest in brocade,
woven in the manner of brocade.

BRIMMER, brim'mur. s. A bowl full to the ton.
ERIMSTONE, brum'stone. 8. Sulphur.
BRIMSTONY, brim'stó-nè. a. Full of brimstone.
BRANDED, brin'ded. s. Streaked, tabby.
BRINDLE, brin'di. s. 405, 359. The state of
ing brinded.
BRINDLED, brin'did. a. 405. Brinded, streake BROCH, brok. s. A badger.

BROCAGE, brokidje. s. 90. The gain gotten
by promoting bargains; the hire given for any
unlawful oflice; the trade of dealing in old
things.

be|BROCCOLI, brók'ko-lè. s. A species af cab bage.

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