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 BRA ( .659 ) B R A Brackets, in a fiiip, the fmall knees, ferving to fup- floth, has a fhort tail, and only three toes on each foot. It is about the fize of a fox. The body is coport the galleries, and commonly carved. Alfo the timbers that fupport the gratings in the head, are cal- vered over with hair of a grey colour ; the face is naked ; the throat is yellowilh ; the fore-feet are longer led brackets. Brackets, in gunnery, are the cheeks of the carriage than the hind-feet; the claws, which are three on each of a mortar: they are made of llrong planks of wood, foot, are cbmprefltd, and very ftrong; and they hive of almofl: a femicircular figure, an<| bound round with no mammas on the breaft; they have no external ears, tliiek iron plates ; they are fixed to the beds by four but only two winding holes. This fpecies is a native bolts, which are called bed-bolts; they rife up on of America, and feeds upon the tender leaves of trees, each fide of the mortar, and ferve to keep her at any and particularly the leaves of the cecropia. It never elevation, by means of fome ftrong iron bolts, called drinks, Ind is terrified’ at rain. It climbs trees with bracket-bolts, which go through thefe cheeks or great eafe; but its motion on the ground is fo flow, that it can hardly walk fifty paces in a day, and from brackets. BR.ACKLAW, the capital of the palatinate of Brack- • this circumftance it is called a Sloth. It makes a moft law, in Podolia, in Poland, ficuated on the river Bog, difagreeable noife, refembling that of a young cat. See an 0hundred and ten miles eaft of Kaminec: E. long. Plate LIX. fig. 1. 2. The dida&ylus, or Ceylon floth, has two toes on each foot, and no tail: The 29 20', and N. lat. 48°. BRACKLEY, a borough-town of Northampton/hire, a- head is round; the ears are large; and it has two mammas on the breaft : The body is covered with aflibout tifteen miles fouth-weft 0 of Northampton : W. ion. i° 15', and N. lat. 52. x coloured hair. It has the fame difagreeable cry with the American floth, and is a native of Ceylon. It fends two members to parliament. BRACTEA, in natural hiftory, denotes a fpangle, or BRAG, an ingenious and pleafant g^me at cards, where thin flake of any fub/lance. as many may partake as the cards will fupply ; the Bractea, in botany. , See Floral Leaf. eldeft hand dealing three to each perfon at one time, BRACTEARIA; in natural hiltory, a genus of talcs, and turning up the laft card all round. This done, competed of fmall plates in form of fpangles, each plate each gsmefter puts down three ftakes, one for each either being very thin, or fiflile into very thin ones. card. The firft ftake is won by the beft card turned Of this genus there are a great many fpecies, called, up in the dealing round; beginning from the ace, from their different colours, mica aurea, or gold- king, queen, knave, and fo downwards. When cards glimmer ; and mica argentea, filver-glimmer, or cats- of the fame value are turned up.to two or more of the filver, gamefters, the eldeft hand gains; but it is to be obBRAD, in geography, a town of Sclavonia, fituated on ferved, that the ace of diamonds wins, to whatever hand it be turned up. the north fide of the river Save, , eighteen miles0 fouth ofPofega: E. long. 18° 40 and N. lat. 45 id. The fecond ftake is won by what is called the bras,, BRADFIELD, a market-town Jin EfTex,7 fourteen miles which confifts in one of the gainefters challenging the north of Chelmsford : E. long, jo, and N. lat.. reft to produce cards equal to his : Now it is to be that a pair of aces is the beft brag,, a pair ?i° 54 • a market-town in Wiltfhire. about nine obferved, BRADFORD, of kings the next,, and fo on;. and a pair oY any lore miles weft wins the ftake from the moft valuable fingle card. In 0 of the Devizes : E. long.,2° 40'. and N.. lat. 51 id. this part confifts the great divejfion: of the game ; for, • geftures, and BRADFORTH, a market town of Yorkfhire, thirty by the artful management of the looks, miles fouth-weft of York : W. long. 1° gy', and N. voice, it frequently happens, that a pair of fives, treys, P lat. S3 40'. or even duces,, out-brags a much higher pair, and BRADNICH, a market town of Devonflbire, ten miles even fome pairs royal, to the no fmall merriment of north of Exeter: W. long; 30 35', and N. lat. the compay. The knave of clubs is here a principal favourite, making a pair with any other card in hand, 50° 4a pair royal. BRADS, among artificers, a kind of nails ufed in build- and with any other two cards ing, which have no fpreading heads, as other nails The third ftake is won b1^ the perfon who fii ft makes bate. They are diftinguifhed, by iron-mongers, by up the cards in his hand one and thirty; each dignU fix names, as joiner’s-brads, flooring bradsj batten- fied card going for ten, and drawing from the pack, as brads, bill-brads, or quarter heads, <bc. JoineYs- ufual in this game, brads are* for hard wain-fcot, batten brads are for foft BRAGA, the capital of the province of Entre-minhowaiafeot; bill-brads are ufed when a floor is laid in diiro, in Portugal,'fituated on the river Cavado, 32 bafte, or for {hallow joifts fubjeff to warp. See Nail. miles north of »Porto.; W. long, 8° 40', and N. lat. BRADYPUS, or fleth, a genus of quadrupeds be- 41° 20'. longing to the order of bruta. The charadters are BRAGANZA; a city of the province of Tralofmontes, thefe: They have no fore-teeth in either jaw; the in Portugal, fituated on the. river Sabor, in 70 W-. dog-teeth are blunt, folitary, and longer than the long, and 41° 50' N. lat. grinders; they have five grinders on,each fide. The kindinofWales. drink made of malt, honey, and body is covered with: hair. There are only two fpe- BRAGGET, fpices, much aufed cits-of bradyjus, v z. 1. The trld ft/lis, or American BRAIL, or brails, in a fbip, are fmall ropes made