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 BRA 23 BUD Brassets. Vambraces, or Avant- BRACES. Pieces of armour for the arms. P. 38, f. g. See Vambraced. Brazier-inflamed. P. 39, f. 32. Bream. A fish. P. 32. f. 15. Breast. A woman's breast. P. 43, f- 34- Breast-plate. See Cuirass. P. 38, f.7. Breathing. A term applied to a stag at gaze. Brectesches. Parapets, or battle- ments. Bret. See Brit. Bretesse, Bretessed, Brettessed, or Brettessee. A term used when a charge has battlements on each side, directly opposite each other. P. 3, f. 10; P. 14, f. 17. Brettepee. The same as Bretesse. Breys. See Barnacles. Brick, or Brique. Similar to the billet buL buuwing its thickness in per- spective. Brick-axe, or Bricklayer's axe. P. 41, f. 21. Brick-kiln. P. 41, f. 46. Bridled. Having a bridle on ; as a , horse's head bridled. P. 27, f. 35. Bridge. Bridges in coat armour are of various forms, with one, two, or three arches, in blazon tiie number must be named, as a bridge of three arches, &c., P. 23, f. 19 and 20. Brigandine. p. 38, f. 8. SeeHxBERGO-s. Brill. A fish. P. 32, f. 21. Brimsey. The same as Gad-bee. P. 30, f. 21. Brinded, or Breexded. Spotted. Ap- plied only to animals. Brindled. Same as Brinded. Brise, or Brisee. Broken. 5^e Rompu. Bristled. A term to express the hair on the neck and back of a boar, when of a different tincture from the body. Brisure, Brizure, or Brisures. equivalent to the term Difference in marks ol Cadency. P. 46. Brit, Bret, or Burt. A fish of the herring kind. P. 32, f. 44a. Broad-Arrow. Similar to the Pheon, but having the insides of the barbs plain. P. 37, f. 17. The Broad arrow is the Eoyal mark on all Government stores &c. It was the regal badge of Richard I. Broad-axe. P. 37, f. 28. Broach, or Broche. An instrument used by embroiders. P. 41, f. 44. Brochant sur le tout. When one charge rests upon any other as the Fesse at P. 3, f. 31. Brock. See Badger. Brocket. A young stag so blazoned in the arms of Hanney. Brogue, or Irish-brogue. A kind of shoe. P. 19, f. 38. Broken, splintered, shivered, or FRACTED. p. 4, f. 31; P. 37, f. II. Bronchant. a term used by some authors to denote the situation of any beast, when placed on a field strewed with fleur-de-lis ; by others it is con- sidered equivalent to "over-all." Broom, or Besom. P. 42, f. 49. Broom-plant, or Planta-genista. P. 25, f. 6 & 9. The Badge of Plantagenet. Broom-plant, Broom-sprig, Broom- branch, and Broom-flower. P. 44, f. 42. Brow- Antler, or Browantltrr. The first branch of the horn of a buck. Browsing. The mode of eating of a Graminiverous animal. P. 28, f. 48. Bruised. The same as Debruised. Brumsey. a Gad-Fly. P. 30, f. 21. Brush. See Block-Brush, P. 42, f. 49. Treble-flat-Brush, P. 41, f. 42. Brusk. The same as Tenne. Bubble, Water-Bubbles. Borne by the name of Aire, and Bubbleward. P. 22, f. 14. Buck. See Stag. Bucket. Is variously depicted. See P- 39> f- 35 and 36. Buckle, also termed Fermaile, or Femaille. The emblem of Fidelity and Firmness. In Armoury these are of various shapes ; In blazoning them this must be named; as a lozengy-buckle tongue-fessways. P. 42, f. 15. An oval -buckle and round-buckle tongue pendent, f. 15. A mail, or square- buckle, a buckle of an heart shape tongiie pendent, a round-buckle tongue erect, and a belt-buckle. P^4i2, f. 16. The last example at f. 16 is also termed a gar-buckle. Buckled. When a belt, band, or collar, etc. is depicted as fastened with a buckle, it is said to be buckled, as a garter-buckled. P. 42, f. 17. Buckler, Target, Targe, or Shield. A piece of defensive armour, is de- picted in various shapes. P. i, P. 43, f. 58. Bud. Flowers in the bud, or budding, occur in arms. P. 45, f. 10. Budget. See Water-Bouget.