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 BRA ( 660 ^ BRA •nf? of to furl the fails acrofs: They belong only to lourirg drugs, and ufe it for making, what they call, the two courfes &nd the mizen fail; they are reeved the Jour •waters, with which they prepare their levethrough the blocks, feized on e-ich fide the ties, and ral dyes. come down before the fail, ‘being at the very Ikirt BRANCH, in botany, an arm of a tree, or a part, thereof fattened to the cringles ; their ufe is, when the which, iproming out from the trunk, helps to form fail is furled acrofs, to hale up its bunt, that it may the head or crown thereof. the more eafily be taken up or let fall. Hale up the Branches of a bridle, in the manege, are two pieces of brails, or brail up the fail, that is, hale up the fail, in iron bended, which, in the interval, between the one order to he furled or bound clofe to the yard. and the other, bear the bit-mouth, the crofs-chains, BRAILOW, a town of Podolia, in Poland, fituated on and the curb; fo that on one end they anfwer to the the0river Bog, 40 miles north of Bracklow ; E. long. head-ftall, and on the other to the reins, in order to keep the horfe’s head in fubjeffion. With regard to 29, andN. lat. 48° 50. their form and ftrudlure, branches are either ftrait, BRAIN, in anatomy. See p. 283, &c. Brain i.e compte, a town of Hainalt, in the Auftrian in form of a piftol, for young horfes to form their Netherlands, fifteen miles fouth-eaft of0 Bruflels, and mouth; or, after the conftable of Brance’s falhion, nine north-eaft of Mons; E. long. 4, and N. lat. proper for a horfe that carries his head well. Some are in form of a gigot or leg, which will prevent horfes 50° 40'. BRAINTREE, a.market-town of Eflex, 12 miles north from carrying too low: Some in form of a bent knee, contrived for horfes that arm themfelves again!! the of Chelmsford; E long. 3 5', and N. lat. 51° jo'. BRAKE denotes female fern, or the place where it operation of the bit; and others after the Breach fagrows : Alfo a (harp bit or Inattle for horfes; and a fhion, which is hardly about of an inch at the levile baker’s kneading trough: Alio an iuftruihent with hole, and kneed, inch at the jarret or ham. It is to be obferved, t. That the farther the branch teeth, to bruife flax or hemp, BRAKEL, a town of the bifliopric of Paderborn, 0in the is from an horfe’s neck, the more effedt it will have. circle of Wettpha.lia, in Germany; E. long. 9, and 2* That fhort branches, cceteris paribus, are ruder, and their effedls more ^ndden, than thofe of longer. 3. N. lat. yt° 40'. BR ALROENS, one0 of the Sundadflands, lying north- That the branch is to be proportioned to the length of a horfe’s neck; and one may fooner err in chuling eatt of Java, in 4 30' N. lat. BRAMA, in ichthyology, the trivial name of a fpecies one toofliort than too long. Branches of ogives, in architedhire, are the arches of of cyprinus. See Cyprinus. BR AMANT, a town of Savoy, 35 miles north-weft of Gothic vaults. Thefe .arches traverfing from one angle to another diagonal wife, form a crof? between Turin; E. long. 6° 45', andN. lat. 45 °. BRAMBER, a borough-town of Sulfex, about r6 miles the other arches, which make the iides of the fquare, fouth-eatt/ of Grinded; W. long. 15, and N. lat. of which the arches are diagonals. Branch of a trench. See Boyau. 90° jo. It fends two members to parliament. BRAMBLE, or Bramlle-bush, in botany, the Eng- Branch of a mine. See Gallery. Branch-stand, with falconers, a term ufed to fignlfy lilh name of the rubus. See Rubus. Bramble-net, otherwife called hallier, is a net to catch the making a hawk leap from tree to tree, till the dog birds in, of feveral fizes; the great malhes mutt be fprings the game. four inches fqaure; thofe of th.e leaft fize are three or BRANCHER, among fportfmen, a young hawk, newdy four inches fquare; and thofe of the biggeft five. In taken out of the nett, that can hop from bough to the depth, they fliould .not be above three or four bough. inches; but as for the length, they may be enlarged at BRANCHIAL or gills, in the anatomy of fifhes, the parts correfponding to the lungs of land-animals, by pleafure; the fhorteft being eigtheen feet long. Bramble, or Brambling. in ornithology, the Eng- which fifties take in and throw out again a certain lilh name of a fpecies of fringilla. See Bring ill a. quantity of water, impregnated with air. All fifties, BRAMIN3, the name of the priefts among the idola- except the cetaceous ones and the petromyzum, are trous Indians; the fucceflbrs of the ancient brachmans. furniftied with thefe organs of refpiration ; which are always eight in number, four on each fide the throat. See Brachmans. BRxAMPORE,0 a town of the Blither Peninfula of India; That next the heart is always the leaft, the reft increafing in order as they Hand near the head of the E. long. 77, andN. lat. 210 30'. BRAMPTON, a market-town of Cumberland, about fifh. Each of thefe gills is compofed of a bony laming, fix miles north-eaft of Carlifle ; W. long. 20 40', and in form of a femicircle, for the moft part; and on its N. lat. 540 50'. BRAMYARD. a market-town of Herefordlhire, 0about convex fide ftand the leaves or lamella?, like fo ma12 miles north-eaft of Hereford; W. long. 2 30', ny fickles. The whole convex part of the lamellse is befet with hairs, which are longeft near the bafe, and and N. lat. 520 20'. BRAN, the fltins or hulks of corn, efpecially wheat decreafe gradually as they approach towards the point. ground, feparated from the flour by a fieve or boulter. There are alfo hairs on the concave fide of the lamelIt is of wheat-bran that ftarch-makers make their lae, but ftiorter than the others, and continued only to ftarch. The dyers reckon bran among the not-co- its middle. The