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 dents. He strugling against too strong an opposition, thinks to performe impossibilities.

Brise-tour. Tower-breaking, tower-splitting.

Brisette: f. A little scale or huske; a little splint, or shiuer, broken off anything.

Briseur: m. A burster, breaker; brayer, beater in peeces; a tearer off, a plucker vp; a violater, an infringer.

Briseure. as Brisure. Briseux: m. euse: f. Breaking, braying, crushing, bursting asunder.  Dents briseuses. The tuskes, tushes, or dogs teeth.

Brisgoter. (¶Rab.) as Briscoter. Brisseure: f. Broken peeces.

Brisure: f. A breach, burst, breaking, or beating in peeces; also, a plucking, renting, tearing off, or vp; also, an extreame crush, bruise, crushing or bruising; also, a broken peece of; also, an addition, in armorie, for the distinction of brothers; as, a Labell, halfe Moone, Mullet, &c.

Brit. prendre au b. Looke Bric. Britanique: f. Brittannica, Bistort, Snakeweed, Pashions, Oisterloite; (an hearbe.)

Brive: f. A bridge. (v.m.) Britascher. I'ay oüi britascher d'une telle chose. I haue heard some such muttering.

Briz: m. ''A bracke, breach, or leake, in a ship, &c. Looke'' Bris. Brize. for Bize. The North wind: ¶Rab. Brizer. as Briser. Broc: m. A steane, great flagon, tankard, or pot; holding (most commonly) twelue Parisian pintes.  De broc en bouche. Suddenly, incontinently, while tis hot.

Brocar: m. Satin stript, or purfled, with gold.

Brocard: m. A quip, gird, or cut; a ieast, flout, scoffe, gibe, mocke; also, as Brocar; and as Brocart. Brocardé: m. ée: f. Quipped, cut, or ieasted at; scoffed, mocked, flouted, gibed.

Brocarder. To quip, cut, gird, reach ouer the thummes; ieast at; flout, mocke, scoffe, deride, or gibe at.

Brocarderie: f. A cutting, quipping, nipping, ieasting at; floating, mocking, scoffing, deriding, gibing at.

Brocardeur: m. A quipper, scoffer, mocker, flouter, derider, giber, or ieaster at.

Brocart: m. A two-yeare-old Deere; which if he bee a red Deere, we call a Brocket; if a fallow, a Pricket; also a kind of swift stag, which hath but one small branch growing out of the stemme of his horne; also, as Brocard. Brocatel: m. Tinsell; or thin cloth of gold, or siluer.

Brocelles. as Brossailles. Brochant: m. ante: f. Broching, spitting, stitching.  Brochant sur le tout. Ouer all; (spreading, or dis-*playing it self, is meant, but omitted, by our Blasonners.)

Brochard: m. A peg, or pricke, of wood.

Broche: f. A broach, or spit; also, a (great) stitch.  Broches. The piles (in the fundament;) also, the tusks, or tushes, of a horse; or wild bore.  Broche de mer. The Spit-fish.  Couper broch à. To preuent, or take away th' occasion of.  Vendre vin à broche. To retaile, or draw wine; to vtter, or sell it, by pot-fuls, &c.

Broché: m. ée: f. broached, spitted; also, (grosely) stitched; sowed, or set with (great) stitches.

Brocher. To broach, to spit; also, to stitch (grossely) to set, or sowe with (great) stitches. Brocher vn cheval des esperons. To spurre him, to strike him with spurres; also, to spurre him hard, almost to sticke him with spurring.

Brochereux: m. Little Pickerels.

Brochet: m. A Pike (fish;) also, a faucet, or quill for a wine vessell.  Brochet de mer. The sea Pike, the Cod-fish; also, the Spit-fish; or, as Bequet de mer. Ils iettent les gardons pour tirer des brochets. They forgoe an egge to gaine an Oxe; or, small, for great, matters.

Brocheton: m. A Pickerell, or small Pike (of the length of a foot, or vnder.)

Brochette de bois, &c; A pricke, or peg or wood, &c.  Brochette d'argent. A little wedge of siluer.

Brochoir: m. A (Farriers) shooing hammer.

Brode: m. Broth, pottage, brue.

Brode: f. A blacke, swart, or Sunne-burnt, wench.  Pain de brode. Browne bread.

Brode. langage brode. A loose, laskie, squattering, scuruie; also, an effeminate, language, or speech.

Brodé: m. ée: f. Imbrodered.  Robbe d'argent brodé de merde. Iustinians Institutes; (called so because of the filthie Commentaries made on them.)

Brodequin: m. A buskin.  Les brodequins. Buskins, or bootes (filled with hoat oyle, &c.) whereinto the legs being put are extreamely tormented.

Broder. To imbroder.

Brodes. A cloke, or mantle, of leather.

Brodeur. as Bordeur. Brodeure. as Bordure. Brodier: m. The arse, bumme, taile: ¶Norm. Broisse. A brush; Looke Brosse. Brommart: m. arte: f. Drowsie.

Broncher. as Bruncher. Bronchique. muscle b. One of the foure muscles which open the Larinx.

Brondes: f. Greene boughes, or branches, of trees; browzing for cattell; or browze-wood.

Bronze: m. Brasse.

Bronzé: m. ée: f. Brason, brassie, made of, or couered with, brasse.

Bronzer. To Braze; to make of, or couer with, brasse.

Brossailles: f. Little bushes of thornes; also, little bundles of twigs, or stickes fashioned like bauens, or fagots; also, little loose stickes remaining in a place where fagots, or bauens haue beene laded, or layed.

Brossailleux: m. euse: f. Full of little bushes, or loose stickes.

Brossant. Threeding a wood, rushing through it; also, brushing.

Brosse: f. A bush; also, a bushie ground, or thornie groue; also, the head-brush thats of a whitish, or straw-coloured heath, (now most in vse among the better sort;) also, a brush of wire; also, a flax-combe, or hetchell.

Brosser. To threed a wood, runne through bushes, rush through thickets; also, to brush, or make cleane with a brush; also, to combe, or hetchell flax, &c.  Brosser bien vn cheval aux Tournois. To manage a horse gallantly in Turneyes.

Brossettes: f. Small heath whereof head-brushes are made.

Brot. as Broc. A flagon, or great tankard.  Vn brot de vigne. The bud of a vine.

Brotonne. Male Sothernwood.

Brou: m. The outward huske of a green wallnut.