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 Bresillé: m. ée: f. Made red, as, or with, Brasilewood.  Boeuf bresillé. as in Bresil; Martlemas beefe.

Bresin: m. The hooke of a crane; and, in a ship, the canne-*hooke.

Bressaudes: f. The crispie mammocks that remaine of tried hogs grese.

Bressaux. A kind of fine cakes, or wafers; or, as Pain de Quinque. Bresse: f. as Broisse; A brush; also, a thinne leafe, or cake, as, of wax, &c.

Bresseron: m. The Sow-thistle.

Bressille des yeux: f. The twinkling of the eyes.

Bressiller. To twinkle with the eyes.

Bret: m. A little engine (made of two stickes ioyned together) wherewith fowlers catch small birds, the whilst they wonder at an Owle, thats set of purpose to amaze them; also, as Bray. Bret. Estre, ou parler, bret. To stammer, stut, or speake indistinctly.

Bretaudé. Curtalled.

Bretauder. To curtall; See Bertauder. Breteler. To brabble, chide, brawle, scowld, berate.

Breteleur: m. A brabler, chider, brawler, or wrangler; a litigious, or vaine talker.

Bretelles d'une hotte. The arms, or handles of a basket, or maund; (In France they are commonly made of a peece of a girth.)

Breteque. as Bretesque. Bretesche. The same.

Bretesque. A publicke place in a towne, wherein out-*cries, and proclamations are ordinarily made; also, a port, or portall of defence, in the rampire, or wall, of a towne.

Brethecque. The same.

Breton. A Britan; An Inhabitant of Britanie.  Breton Bretonnant. The low Britan, who speakes halfe Welsh, halfe Saxon, all barbarously.  Breton Gallo, ou Gallor. The high Britan, who speakes French, but verie corruptly.  Saut de Breton. Looke Saut. Bretonnant. Speaking thicke and short; also, (but lesse properly) stammering, faultering, maffling in the mouth.  Breton bretonnant. Looke Breton. Bretonner. To speake thicke and short; or, as wee say, nine words at once; also, to stammer withall.

Brette: f. A (Fencers) foyle.

Bretté: m. ée: f. Notched, indented, iagged, or toothed, like a saw.

Brettessé: m. ée: f. Imbattled; adorned, garnished, or furnished with battlements.

Brettesse: f. The battlements of a wall.

Bretture: f. An indenting, iagging, notching.

Bretueil: m. Th' yron peece called a Fowler, or Port-*peece.

Brevade: f. as Brevet. Breve: f. The mettall which is, at one time, deliuered vnto a Coyner, or money-maker, to be wrought; called thus, because the quantitie thereof is briefely specified in a Ticket.

Brevet: m. A breefe, note, breuiate, little writing, short declaration, ticket; or bill of ones hand; also, as Brief; Sub. Estre enferré aux brevets des marchands. To bee farre in their bookes.  Hausser le brevet. To come off more liuely, to stretch the purse strings.

Brevetade. as Brevet. Breveter. To abreuiate, epitomize, reduce into breefes, or breuiates.

Breviaire: m. A Breuiarie, or Masse booke; also, a breuiarie, summarie, compendious abridgement.  C'est matiere de breviaire. Tis holy stuffe I tell you; irronically: ¶Rab. Il est au bout de son breviaire. He is at a plunge, or nonplus; he hath no more to say; (from ignorant Priests, that can say no more than they find in their Seruice booke.)  Il est clerc iusques aux dents, il a mangé son breviaire. He makes a shew of learning, but indeed hath none in him; or, as in Clerc. Breuil: m. A thicke growne forrest, wood, or groue, haunted by great wild beasts.

Breulet: m. An engine of two sticks (gouerned by a small cord) wherewith Fowlers catch little birds.

Breusse: f. A dish, or footlesse cup, or bowle, of Tinne.

Breusté: for Brousté; Broosed, or knapped off. Breuvage. as Bruvage. Breuvoer: m. Liquor; or, any liquid stuffe, thats fit to be made into drinke.

Breze. as Braise. Brezil. as Bresil. Breziller. To twinkle, or glitter; as the Sunne beames in a hoat season.

Bribe: f. A peece, lumpe, or cantill of bread giuen vnto a begger.  Il n'est vie que de coquins quand ils ont assemblé leurs bribes: Prov. There is no life (no mirth) to that of a company of beggers, hauing laied their scrips together.

Briber. To beg his bread; also, to rauine, deuoure, eate greedily; (from the sound made by the lips of a horse that eats prouender.)

Bribeur: m. A begger, a scrap-crauer; one that begs victuals from doore to doore; also, a greedie deuourer, a rauenous feeder.

Bribonner ses oraisons. To mumble vp his prayers, like an old man.

Briborions. Prayers mumbled vp; or, as Breborions. Bric. prendre au bric. To take at aduantage; to catch hold of an vnaduised word, and make thereof a confession; also, to giue a dead lift, or sore blow at the last.

Brichet: m. The brisket, or breast-peece.

Bricole: f. A bricke wall; a side-stroake at Tennis (wherin the ball goes not right forward, but hits one of the walls of the Court, and thence bounds toward the aduerse partie) also, a kind of engine wherewith, in old time, they beat downe walls; also, as Bricolle. Il m'a ioué d'une bricole. He hath played mee sore, or foule, play; offered me hard, or odde, measure; dealt extreamly, or cunningly, with me; also, he hath deceiued, or disappointed, me.

Bricoler. To tosse, or strike a ball sidewayes; to giue it a bricke wall (at Tennis;) also, as Bricoller; also, to banke, at bowles.

Bricolle: f. as Bricole; Also, a kind of toyle for wild beasts. Bricoller. To tosse, or strike a ball sidewayes; to giue it a bricke wall, at Tennis; (Hence) also, to reele, stagger, or make indentures, in going; and, to be violently carried ouerthwart, or sidewayes; also, to turne short (as a Swallow, &c, does, in flying;) also, to leacher.

Bricot: m. The stumpe of a shrub, or little tree; an vp-*sticking stub of a late cut shrub, or tree.