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 BRA ( 6j ;8 ) BRA in anatomy,. the name of a to the houfe of Auftria, the capital Bruffels; and the Coraco-BKAClllAhlS, mufcle. See p. 196. reft to the Dutch, their capital Breda. BRABEjUM, in botany, a genus of the tetrandria mo- BRACHIONUS, in zoology. SeeLABELLA. nogynia clafs. The corolla is below the fruit, and BRACHIUM, or Arm, in anatomy, one of theTupeconfifts of four petals. It has no calix ; the fruit is a rior extremities of the human body, comprehending hairy drupe, of an oval figure. There is only the Scapula, the Os humeri, the Cubit, and one fpecies, viz. the ftellatiferum, a native of JtL- the Hand. See rhefe articles. BRACHMINS, a fed! of Indian philofophers known thiopia. BRABEUTES, or Brabeuta, in antiquity, an offi- to the ancient Greeks by the name of Gymnofophijis.. cer among the Greeks, who prefided at the public Thb ancient brachmins lived upon herbs and puife, and abftained from every thing that had life in it. They, games, and decided contrbverfies that happened among lived folitude without matrimony, and without prothe antagonifts in the gymnaftical exercifes. The perty:in and they wifhed ardently for death, confideiing. number of brabeutae was not fixed; fometimes there was only one, but more commonly they amounted to life only as a burden. The modern brachmans make up one of the cafts or tribes-of the banians. They nine or ten. BRACCIANO, a town of St Peter’s patrimony, about are the pr.efts of that people, and perform their office twelve miles north of Rome, fituated on the weft0 fide of praying and reading the law, with feveral mimical and a kind of quavering voice. They believe, of a lake, 0t<j which it gives name ; E. long. 13, and gefturef, that, in the' beginning, nothing but God and the waN. lat. 42. BRACE is commonly taken for ft couple or pair, and ap- ter exifted, and that the fiipreme Being, defirous to the world, caufed the leaf of a tree^ in, the plied by huntfmen to(feveral beafts of game, as a brace create (hape of a child playing with its great toe in its mouth, of bucks, foxes, hares, Brace, or Brasse, is alfio a foreign meafure, anfwer- to float on the water. From its navel thereiiffued out a flower, whence Brama drew his original, who was ing to our fathom. See Fathom. by God with the creation of the world, and Brack, in architedlure, a piece of timber framed in with intrufred over it with an abfolute fw'ay. They make bevil joints, the ufe of w hich is to keep the building prefides between the fouls of men and brutes, but from fwerving either way. When the brace is fra- nofay diftimffion the dignity of the human foul confifts in being pla9 med into the kinglefles or principal rafters, it is by ced in a better body, and having more room to diffome called a ftrut. its faculties. They allow of rewards and puniffiBraces, in thefea-language, are ropes belonging to all play ments after this life; and havh fo great a veneration, the yards of a (hip, except the mizen, two to each for that they look on themfelves as blefled, if yard, reeved through blocks that are faftened to pen- theycows, can but die with the tail of one of them in their nants, feized to the yard-arms.. Their ufe is either They have preferved fonre noble fragments of to fquare, or traverfe die yards. Hence to brace the hand. of the ancient bracbmans They are yard, is to bring it to either fide. All braces come the knowledge arithmeticians, and calculate, with great exadtaftward on, as the main brace comes to the poop, fkiiful eclipfes of the fun and moon. They are remarkthe main-top-fail brace comes to the mizen-top, and nefs, able for their religious aufterities. One of them has thence to the main ftllouds: The fore and fore-top- been to make a vow, to wear about his neck a fail braces come down by the main and main-top-fail heavyknown of iron for a confiderable time : Another flays, and fo of the reft. But the mizen-b iwline to-chaincolar the foot to a tree, with a firm referves to brace to the yard, and the crofs-jack braces folution tohimfelfby die in that place: And another to walk in are brought forwards to the main (broads, when the wooden (hoes, (luck full of nails on the infide. Their (hip fails clofe by a wind. divine worfhip confifts chiefly of proceffions, made in BRACED, in heraldry, a term for the intermingling honour of their deities. They have a 'college at Bathree cheorooels. See Plate LI. fig 18. BRACELET, an ornament worn on the wrift, much nara, a city feated on the Ganges. the art of (hortrhand writing. See ufed among the ancients: It was made of different ma- BRACHYGRAPHY, Short-hand. • terials, and in different falhions, according to the age BRACHYPTERA, a term ufed by Willoughby, to deand quality of the wearer. Bracelets are flill v/orn by the favages of Africa, note thofe hawks which have their wings fo (hort, as who are fo excelfively fond of them, as to give the not to reach to the end of the tail: Of this kin^l are the gofs hawk, fparrow-hawk, &c. ' richeft commodities and even their fathers, wives, BRACHYPYRENIA, in the hiftory of foffils, a genus and children, in exchange for thofe made of no richer of feptarias, with a (hart roundiffi nucleus. See Sepmaterials than (hells, glafs, beads, and the like Bracelets of .glafs pay 3 s. Sd^d.. the fmall ta Rim. grofs, containing twelve bundles or dickers ; and, if of BRACHYTELOSTYLA, in natural hiftory, the name which Dr HilBcalls thofe cryftals, which are comthe French roanufaifture, they pay 4 s. 1d. for the by of a (hort hexangular column, terminated at (ame quantity: A proportionable drawback is allowed pofed each end by an hexangular pyramid. See Crystal. in each cafe. BRACHLEUS, in anatomy, the name of a mufcle. BRACKET, among carpenters, fcc. a kind of wooden flay, ferving to (import (helves,- and the like. See p. 197.. Brack-