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 BRA ( 662 ) B R E it is to be falted a little, and rolled up as hard as pofBRASS, or, as the French call it, yellow copper, is a fible. length of the collar of brawn, ftiouid be faftitious metal, made of copper and zinc, or lapis ca- as muchThe as one fide of the boar will bear ■ fo that when laminaris. See Chemistry, (2/z/wc Corinthian Brass has been famous in antiquity, and rolled up, it will be nine or ten inches diameter. The collar being thus rolled up, is to be boiled in is a mixture of gold, (liver, and copper. L. Mum- a copper, or large kettle, till it is fo tender, that you mius having facked and burnt the city of Corinth, 146 can run a ftraw it; then fet it by, till it is years before Chrift, it is faid this metal was formed thorough cold, through put it into the following pickle. from the immenfe quantities of gold, filver and copper To every gallon and of water, put a handful or two of wherewith that city abounded, thus melted and run tofait, and as much wheat bran: Boil them together, gether by theone violence of theby conflagration. Brass-coAk'’, prepared the braziers and colour- then drain the bran as clear as you can from the li and when the liquor is quite cold, put the men to imitate brafs. There are two forts of it, the quor; brawn into it. red brafs, or bronze and the yellow or gilt brafs : BRAY, of Champaign0 in France, about 16 miles The latter is made only of copper-filings, the fmalleft north ofa town E. long. 3 20', N. lat. 48° 2 5 and brightell that can be found ; with the former they Bray is alfoSens: the name of a port town of the county of mix fome red ochre, finely pulverized; they are both Wicklow, and province 0of Leinfter, in Ireland ; W. ufed with varnifti. long. 6° 16', N. lat. 53 12'. BRASSE, in ichthyology, the Englilh name of the per- BRAYLE, among fportfinen, apiece of leather flit to ca lucioperca. See Perca. put upon the hawk’s wing, to tie it up. BRAS SIC A, or Cabbage, in botany, a genus of the BRAZED, in heraldry, a term ferving to deferibe three tetradynamia filiquoia clafs. A he calix is ereft and connivent ; the feeds are globular ; and there is a cheverons, one clafping another. netflariferous gland between the pifHUum and the fhort BRAZEN, fomething confifting of brafs, or formed out of it. See Brass. ^ flamina, and between the calix and the long ftamina. BRAZIER, an artificer who makes or deals in all kinds There are ten fpecies of this plant, mod of which are of brafs-ware. excellent pot-heibs, and cultivated in our gardens. BRAZIL. Brasil. BRASSICAVIT, or Brachtcavit, in the menage, is BRAZING, See the foldering or joining two pieces of iron a horfe whofe fore-legs are naturally bended archwile : by means of thin plates of brafs, melted bebeing fo called by way of dillindfion from an arched together tween the pieces that are to be joined. If the work horfe, whofe legs are bowed by hard labour. fine, as when two leaves of a broken faw are BRAVA, or/Atre/ra-BRAVA. See P a re 1 r a Brava. be.very be brazed together, they cover it with pulverized BRAULS, Indian cloths with blue and white ftripes. toborax, melted with water, that it may incorporate They are otherwife called turbants, becaufe they ferve to cover thofe ornaments of the head, particu- with the brafs powder, which is added to it; The piece is then expofed to the fire without touching the larly on the coafl of Africa. coals, and heated till the brafs is feen to run. BRAUNAU, or Bran Air, a town of Bavaria in Ger- Brazing is alfo the joining tw<J pieces of iron together many, about twenty:fiye milts fouth-weft of Paffau. beating them hot, the one upon the other, which BR AUNSBURG, a town of Pruffia, fnuated on the isbyufed pieces by farriers, <bc. Baltic fea, about thirty miles fouth-weft of Koningf- BRAZZA,foralarge town and ifland on the coaft of Dalmatia, burg; K. long. 20°, N. lat. 54° 15'. in the Gulph of Venice ; E.long. 180, N. lat. 430. BR AVO, one0 of the Cape verd iflands: W. long. 250, BREACH, in fortification, a gape made in any part of N lat. 14. works of a town by the cannon or mines of the beBRAURONIA, in Grecian antiquity, a feflival in ho- the fiegers, in to make an attack upon the place. nour of Diana, furnamed Braaronia, from its having To make theorder attack more difficult, the befieged iow been obferv-ed at Brauron, an Athenian borough. the breach- with crow-feet, or flop it with chevaux This feftival was celebrated once in five years, be ing managed by ten men, called, in Greek, _ieropoioi']. de frize. A practicable breach, is that where the men may The viftim offered in facrifice was a goat, and it was make a lodgement, and ought to be fifteen cuftomary for certain men to fing one of Homer’s ili- mount and fathoms wide. THe befiegers make their ads. The mod remarkable perfons at this folemnity orwaytwenty . were young virgins, habited in yellow gowns, and bags,to<bc.it, by covering themfelves with gabions, earthconfecrated to Diana. It was unlawful for any of Breach, in a legal^ fenfe, is where a perfon breaks them to be above ten, or under five years of age. the condition of a bond or covenant; on an BRAWN, the fleih of a boar fouced or pickled ; for through upon which, the breach muff be aflignedr And which end the boar fhould be old; becaufe the older aCtion this Affignment muft not be general, but particular ; as, he is, the more horny will the brawn be. of covenant for not repairing houfes, it The method of preparing brawn is as fallows ; The in an aCtion to be afligned particularly what is the want of boar being killed, it is the flitches only, without the ought reparation and certain manner, that the delegs, that are made brawn; the bones of which, are fendant may takeinanfuch iffue. to.he taken out, and then the flefh fprinkled with ialt, and laid in. a tray, that the blood may drain off: Then BREAD,