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 Brandir. To cast, or hurle with great force, or violence; to make a thing shake, or quauer, by the force it is cast with; also, to brandish; to shine, or glister with a gentle shaking, or soft mouing.

Brandon: m. A torch, firebrand, great cresset, lanterne, or light set vp; also, the bush of a Tauerne, or Ale-*house; also, a staffe topped with straw, and pitched down by a Landlord into his tenants ground, in signe of an arrest, or seisure for seruices omitted, or his rent vnpayed.  Brandon doré. The Sunne.

Brandonné: m. ée: f. Stucke downe, as a staffe of straw, on land, in signe of an arrest, or seisure; or, seised, as land by that ceremonie.

Brandonner. To seise land by pitching downe into it a staffe topped with straw; as before in Brandon. Brane. bœuf brane. A kind of wild and vnreclaimeable Ox in the countries of Languedoc, & Provence; fit onely for the Shambles.

Branlage: m. A kind of toll, or tax.

Branler. See Bransler. Branquar. as Brancar; also, the edge of the decke of a ship.

Branque vrsine. Brankursin, Beares-breech, Beares foot, Beares claw (an hearbe.)  Branque vrsine sauvage. Wild Acanthus, wild Beares-breech.

Branqueté: m. ée: f. Rifted, ransacked; opreßed.

Branqueter. as Bransquetter. Branque-vrsine. Brank-ursin, Beares-breech (an hearbe.)

Branscat: m. Spoyle, rauage, ransacking; oppression, extreame wrong.

Branslant: m. ante: f. Brandling; shaking, swinging; tottering; shogging, wagging; reeling, staggering; wauering.  Chariot branslant. Looke Chariot. Bransle: m. A totter, swing, or swindge; a shake, shog, or shocke; a stirring, an vncertain and inconstant motion; also, a brandling, &c; as in Branslement; also, a brawle, or daunce, wherein many (men, and women) holding by the hands sometimes in a ring, and otherwhiles at length, moue all together.  Le bransle contrainct. The shaking of the sheets.  Le bransle de la corde. A swing in a halter; or, the rope-swing (which few men take with a good will.)  Aller de grand bransle. To moue apace, to goe very fast.  Il est en bransle si. Tis doubtfull, or vncertaine whether yea or no; the matter hangs in suspence, or is yet in the ballance.  Sonner les cloches en bransle. To ring out the bels.

Branslé: m. ée: f. Brandled; tottered; shaken, swung; shogged, wagged; reeled, staggered; waued, wauered; often stirred, or moued from side to side; also, trembled, quaked.

Branslement: m. A brandling; tottering; shaking, swinging; shogging, wagging; reeling, staggering; wauering; often, and vncertaine mouing from side to side; also, a trembling.  Branslement des dents. Loosenesse of the teeth.

Bransler. To brandle; totter; shake, swing; shog, wag, reele, stagger; waue, wauer; nod often, stirre apace, moue vncertainely, or inconstantly, from side to side; also, to tremble, or quake. Bransler au manche. To be loose in the helue, or heft; to stagger, wauer, shake, or flinch, vpon a triall; to want courage, or grow faint-hearted, in a time, or at the point, of execution; resolution to faile a man when he hath most need of it.  Bransler la pique. To frig, to wrigle it.  Bransler la teste. To shake the head, in signe of contempt, scorne, mockerie, or discontentment.  La teste luy bransle. Said of one that is much afraid; and of one whose head by drinking is become too heauie for his bodie.  L'Armée bransle. The army begins to giue, or to loose, ground; begins to totter, or to fall into disorder.

Bransloire: com. Any thing that shakes, shogs, or swings a man vp and downe; any thing that makes him reele, totter, or stagger; also, a brandling, &c; as in Branslement; and hence;  Bransloire d'enfans. A fashion of tottering vsed by schoole-boyes, vpon one forme layed (with the feet vpwards) ouercrosse another.

Bransquetter. To rifle, rauage, ransacke; to spoyle, or take in a towne by violence; to oppresse, wrong, or grate vpon, extreamely.

Braque: m. A kind of short-tayled setting dog; ordinarily spotted, or partie-coloured.

Braqué. Bent, leuelled, or planted, as Artillerie, against a place; also, braked, as hempe.

Braquemar. ou, Braquemard. A woodknife, hangar, whineyard.

Braquer (l'artillerie) contre. To leuell; bend; or plant (artillerie) against.  Braquer du chambre. To brake hempe.  Braquer vn chariot. To turne, set, or bend, a chariot on the right, or left hand.

Bras: m. An arme, of the bodie; of a riuer, of the sea; also, the foreleg of a horse. Bras (plural.) The two small ropes that passe through the end of the Bolt-sprit yard, and serue to hale in the sayle; our mariners name them, Clulings. Bras de l'antenne. The Tyes; the tackling that holds, and stayes the sayle-yard. Le bras seculier. Secular authoritie, lay iurisdiction; ciuill magistracie, or the ciuile magistrate. Les bras d'un Scorpion. The cleyes, or clawes, of a Scorpion, &c. Chaire à bras. A chaire with elbowes. Grand bras. The whole arme, and hand. Homme de bras. An artificer, labourer, handicrafts man; one that gets his liuing by the labour of his hands. Petit bras. The vpper part of the arme from the elbow to the shoulders. Vallet à bras. Looke Vallet. Bras à bras. Arme in arme; louingly, or equally, together. Les bras croisez. Idly, lazily, slouthfully, negligently, carelesly. Bras dessus & bras dessous. Freely, affectionatly, with strict, or earnest imbracements, most familiarly. À tour de bras. Throughly, fully, soundly; with maine strength, or confident authoritie. Se laisser aller sous les bras d'autruy. To relie vpon another. Canonizé gros comme le bras. ''Canonized as sure as a club. (Ironically.)'' Il iette la pierre, & cache le bras. He does the most mischiefe, and would be least seene in it. Bras à la poictrine, iambe en gesine: Prov. Those parts, being hurt, must haue rest; the one in a scarfe; the other in bed, or on a stoole. À l'or le feu fort, au fort bras la luicte: Prov. The worth of gold is tried by fire, the strength of an arme by wrestling.