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 Bricoteau. A quoyte of stone (v.m.) Bridaveaux: m. Hollow, round, and wreathed cracknels of fine flower, sugar, salt, and yoalkes of egs, incorporated together with water, and white wine.

Bride: f. A bridle; also, a border, or carkanet of gold, and pearle for a womans head, (in the hinder part whereof tis closed;) also, a kind of drinking vessell.  Bride de Chapeau. A stay, for a hat; a string put vnder the hat-band.  Bride à oeilleres. Looke Oeillere. Bride de Soulier: as in Souliers à bride. Brides à veaux. Fopperies; gulleries; grosse tricks, or lyes; vnlikely tales, or things; also, halters; also as Bridaueaux. Souliers à bride, ou à brides. Sandals; or woodden pattins held vnto the foot by one, or more strings (tearmed brides) which fastened on both sides of their sole, thence runne, and rayne, ouer th' instup.  À bride avallée: As fast as he can driue; as fast, or as much, as he can.   Abandonné sur la bride. Hanging vpon the hand; (a Horsemans phrase.)  Fort en bride. Stout, headstrong, stubborne; surly; vnruly.  Lascher la bride à. To carrie a gentler hand vpon; to afforde more scope, o giue more libertie, vnto.  Ie vous en mets la bride sur le col. I giue you full power ouer it; I abandone it wholy vnto you.   Tenir en bride. To restraine, to hold in.

Bridé: m. ée: f. Bridled; bitted; restrained, ruled, moderated, held vnder, kept in order.

Brider. To bridle, bit; restraine, moderate, rule, hold-*under, keepe in order.  Brider l'asne, ou, son cheual par le queuë. To goe the wrong way to worke, to doe a thing by contraries.  Brider la mule à. To waite on, attend the leasure of, or doe base offices for.  Se Bride de serment. Looke, Serment. Bridon: m. A snaffle.

Bridoye: A goose-bridler; (a nickname for a Lawyer ¶Rab. Brief: m. A writ, or breefe; a short mandamus, iniunction; commission &c.   Brief de Iudgement; as Dicton de Iudgement.   Brief d'obligation & de debt. The first copie, note, or scedule of an obligation, deliuered in paper vnto a creditor by the notarie that drew it.   Droit de briefs. Looke Bref.  Brief: m. brieue: f. Breef, short, succinct, compendious, of little length, of small continuance.   Le plus brief est le meilleur: Pro. The shorter the better (in bad things.)

Brief. Adverbially; as  À brief parler. To be short; in a word; the summe of all is; not to trouble you with many words, not to hold you ouer long.  De brief. Shortly, anon, forthwith, incontinently, by and by, within awhile, ere it be long.  En brief. Briefly, shortly, succinctly, compendiously, in few words.

Briemart: m. Poore folkes drinke, made of branne, leauen, and water.

Briere. as Bruyere. Brievement. Breefely, shortly, succinctly, compendiously; straitly, in a narrow compasse, in a little roome.

Brieveté: f. Breuitie, shortnes, succinctnes, compendiousnes. Brifaut: m. A hastie deuourer, a fast eater, a rauenous feeder, a greedie glutton.

Brifeau. as Brifaut. Brifée: f. A morsell, bit, snatch, mouthfull (eaten greedily.)

Brifer. To deuoure, eate hastily, feed reuenously, or like a hungrie glutton.

Brifeur. as Brifaut. Briffaux: m. Rauenous feeders, hastie deuourers.

Briffeur: m. as Brifaut. Brigade: f. A troope, crue, or companie.

Brigader. To accompany, or associate, one another; to troope, or keepe companie, together.

Brigaille: m. A noteable smel-smocke, or muttonmungar, a cunning solicitor of a wench.

Brigand: m. A footman armed, or seruing, with a brigandine (In old time when those kind of souldiors marched, they held all to be good prise that they could purloyne from the people; and thereupon this word now signifies) also, a theefe, purse-taker, high-way robber.

Brigandage: m. A robbing, theeuery, purse-taking, bootehaling, vniust pillage.

Brigande: f. as Brigade (v.m.) Brigandeau: m. A yong, or small theefe; a filcher, a pilferer.

Brigander. To rob, to take a purse; to theeue it by the highway silde.

Brigandereau. as Brigandeau. Briganderie: f. A theeuing; purse-taking; robberie by the highway.

Brigandin. as Brigantin. Brigandine: f. A Brigandine; a fashion of (ancient) armor, consisting of many iointed, and skale-like, plates, very plyant vnto, and easie for, the bodie; (some, lesse properly, confound it with (Haubergeon) a coate, or shirt, of mayle.)

Brigant. as Brigand. Brigantin: m. A low, long, and swift Sea-vessell; bigger then the fregat, and lesse then a foist, and hauing some 12 or 13 oares on a side: we call it also, a Brigantine.

Brignon: m. The name of an excellent plum, whereof there be two kinds, a bigger and a lesse.

Brigue: f. A canuas, priuate suite, vnder-hand labouring for an office, &c; (hence) also, debate, contention, altercation, litigious wrangling about any matter.  Brigue de Metz. A peece of coyne worth 10 pence Tourn. Brigué: m. ée: f. canuased, or laboured for, vnder-*hand; also quarrelled, contended, wrangled about.

Briguer. To canuas, make priuate suite, labour vnder-*hand, for an office, &c; also, to quarrell, contend, wrangle about matters; also, to sharke, or take purses by the high-way side.

Briguerie: f. A priuate canuasing, secret labouring, vnderhand suing for an office, &c; also a litigious debating, wrangling, or contending for matters; also, a sharking, robbing, purse-taking.

Briguet: m. A mungrell; whence (also) a man thats nobly borne but of one side.

Brigueur: m. One that priuately labours, or vnderhand sues, for the assistance, or fauor of others; hence; a canuaser for an office, &c; also, a quarrelsome, contentious, or ligitious, person; also, as Brigand. Brihat: m. One that is hot, and loud.

Bril: m. A glitter, sparkle, twinkle; or glittering &c.