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BOWZER, the pronunciation of Bolsover, co. Derby. See BOLSOVER HILL.
 * ' This pronunciation, ' says Hunter, ' was in constant use in the seventeenth century, even by the noble family to whom the town and castle belonged. Even in the reign of Edward II. we find a John de Bousser placed at the head of a commission of inquiry in the county of Derby. '
 * Hunter's MS. 

BRAD, sb. a small headless nail.

BRADLEY BRIGGS, fields in Ecclesfield. Harrison.

BRADWAY, a hamlet in Norton.
 * C.f. Bradfield in Ecclesfield, Bradfield near Machon bank, and Bradgate near Kimberworth. The broad road which goes through Bradway is called regia via (the king's highway) in a deed affecting land in Bradway dated c. 1280. Derb. Arch. J., iii. 101.

BRAG, sb. a large nail used in fastening flakes in fences.
 * ' Sam's soles were near two inches thick,
 * With here and there a brag. '
 * John Smith ' s Songs, 2nd edit., p. 23.

BRAN, adj. new. ' A bran spankin moggana table. ' Bywater, 160.

BRANCH COAL, cannel coal.

BRANDRETH or BRANDRY, sb. a frame to support stacks.
 * ' A brandryth to set begynnynge (byggyng) on. ' Loramentum. Cath. Angl.

BRANDY-SNAP, sb. thin gingerbread sold at the fair.

BRASE [braze], v. to solder; ' to braze pipes together. '

BRASH, sb. an eruption on the skin.

BRASS, sb. money.

BRAST, v. to push on quickly, to make haste.
 * A card-player would say, if his opponent were slow in playing, ' Now, then, brast ' i.e., be quick, get on. See brast-off in Nodal and Milner's Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect.

BRAT, sb. a pinafore.
 * ' That child's brat is dirty. ' M. E. brat, pallium.

BRAVELY, adj. in good health. L.
 * ' Brave, in good health. ' H.

BRAWN, sb. a boar.
 * I have not heard the word in use, but it is the title of a song by Mather, p. 42. ' The Brawn ' was the sign of a public-house in Sheffield.
 * ' It is of a brawn as you hear
 * Whose picture hangs up for a sign.'
 * Ibid., p. 42.