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 Brillant. les brillants des femmes. The iewels which they weare in their haire; and their glistering petticoats of changeable colours.

Brillant. Glittering, sparkling, twinkling, shining.

Brillement: A glittering, sparkling, twinkling, as of the stars; also, a batfowling.

Briller. To glitter, twinkle, sparkle, as a starre, or like a good diamond; also, as Breller, to batfowle.  Briller apres. Greedily to couet, or lust after.  Les chiens brillent bien. Said of lustie, or well-metled hounds, which nimbly cast about, or (as in French) Sont legiers à la queste. Brillonner. as Briller. Brimbalatoire. See Brimballatoire. Brimbalé: m. ée: f. Tumbled headlong; throwne down topsie-turuie; also, shaken, swagegd, quagged.

Brimbaler. To tumble downe headlong, to fall downe topsie-turuie; also, to shake, swag, or quag, as a great dug, or th' vnsound flesh of a foggie person.  Faire brimbaler les cloches. To set the bells a-*gate.

Brimbales: f. The bells worne by cart, or carriers, horses.

Brimballatoire: com. Swagging, wagging, shaking, or quaking, ill-fauouredly, or loathsomely.

Brimballer. as Brimbaler. Brimballotier. See Brimblotier. Brimbeur: m. A paultrie pedler.  Manteau de brimbeur. A mantle, or cloke of rug, or course frize.

Brimblotier: m. A paultrie pedler; one that hath nought but trash to sell; also, a spangle-maker.

Brimborions. as Breborions; ''also, the knackes, iagges, nifles, bawbles, wherewith fooles caps, &c. are garnished''. Il dit ses brimborions; (for Breviaire) He sayes ouer his whole Psalter; or, he mumbles to himselfe his fond, and superstitious, deuotions.

Brimboter. To mumble, putter, mutter, grumble, or babble vnto himselfe.

Brin: m. A (little) slip, or sprig, of an hearbe, &c; also, a corne of salt; and more generally, any small substance, deale, or bit of a thing.  Bois de brin. Round, or vncleft wood.  Brin à brin. by peece-meale; or by little and little.  Il n'est vn seul brin estonné. He is not a iot, not a whit, not at all, astonished.

Brindelles de balay. The sprigs, or twigs, of a beesome.

Bringue: m. A drinking to.

Bringuenarder. To swiue.

Bringuenarilles. Wide nosethrils: ¶Rab. Bringuenaudée: f. A common hackney, a wench thats often swiued.

Brioche: f. A brake for hempe; also, a rowle, or bunne, of spiced bread. ¶Norm. Brioler. To glide, or slide, on the yce.

Brionie: f. Brionie, white vine, wild nep, tetter berrie; see Bryonie. Brique: f. Bricke; also, a plate, leafe, or wedge of mettall fashioned like a bricke.  Laver vne brique. To labour in vaine; or, to loose both time, and labour.

Briquer. To set, or lay brickes; to worke, build, or fortifie with bricks.

Briquerie: f. A brick kill; a house, or place wherin brick is made.

Briquet: m. as Briguet; also, a yong hare. Briqueterie: f. Brick-worke, laying of bricks; also, a brick kill.

Briquetier: m. A Bricklayer.

Briquettes: f. Nifles, trifles, little toyes.

Briqueux: m. euse: f. Brickie; full of bricks; fit for brickes.

Briquier. A brick maker; bricke-seller.

Bris: m. A bracke, breach, or great leake, in a ship.  Droict de bris. Th' Admiraltie of a sea coast; which giues a man all wrackes, or shipwracks.  Bailler bris contre Robert. Ie luy bailleray bris &c. I will call him Jacke if he call me Gill; I will giue him altogether as good as he brings.  Courir au bris. To run to wracke, to bee in danger of shipwracke.  Ie feray tel bris de toy que tu as merité. I will make that shipwracke of thy reputation, or estate, which thy lewdnesse deserues.

Brisable: com. Burstable, breakeable, brayable.

Brisans: m. The foamie breaking of the sea against rocks, or banks of sand.

Brisant: m. ante: f. Breaking, bursting, beating, braying into peeces.  Quartiers brisans. The quarters of the Moone, in the waine.

Brische: f. A bush made of lime twigs, and a stale hung at it to draw birds vnto it.

Briscoter. To leacher.

Brise: f. A peece of ground, thats new broke vp for tillage; (and hath lien long vntilled.)

Brisé: m. ée: f. Broken, burst; brayed, beaten in peeces; also, rent, or torne off; also bruised or crushed extreamly; (in Blason, oppressed, or charged with;) also, interrupted; also, infringed, or violated.  Chaire brisée. A foulding chaire.  Saisine brisée. Th' occupation, and vse, of an inheritance taken by the tenant, notwithstanding the seisure thereof made of the Lord.  Somme brisée. A broken summe with odde money; or, a whole summe with ouerplus.  Vis brisée. A staire that hath foure of fiue steps vpright, then turnes, and hath as many forward another way; or, a straight staire with halfe paces.

Brisée: f. A breach, brack, rupture; also, a step, track or footing.  Brisées. Boughes rent by hunters from trees, and left in the view of a deere, or cast ouerthwart the way wher-*in he is likely to passe, therby to hinder his running, and to recouer him the better; Our wood-men call them, Blinkes.  Reprenons nos brisées. Let us returne vnto out former way, businesse, discourse, &c.  Retournons par nos brisées. The same.  Ie ne vay plus sur vos brisées. I trace you no more, I follow your footing no longer; or, I am no longer your competitor, concurrent, corriuall.

Brise-grain. Corne-breaking, graine-crushing.

Brise-gueret. Fallow-breaking, mold up-tearing.

Brisement: m. A breaking, braying, beating to peeces; a rending, or tearing off; sore crushing, or bruising; a violating, infringing; an interrupting.

Brise-ponts. Bridge-breaking (of a riuer) all downe-*breaking.

Briser. To burst, breake; bray; beat in peeces; also, to plucke, rend, or teare off, or vp; also, to crush, or bruise extreamely; also, to interrupt, or breake off; also, to violate, or infringe. Briser le fer aux dente. Il pense briser le fer aux