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 B R E ( 664 ) B R E "'Br'kszb, is alfo th« name of an infeft, called the gad- bounded by Franche Compte on the north, by Savoy fly, or horfe-fly. See Fly. on the ead, by Dauphine on the fouth, and by the. ‘BREGENTS, or Bergents, a town fituated at the LyOnois on the wed. eaflt end of the lalte of Conftance, in the county of BRESSICI, in geography. See Breste. . Tyrol in Germany; E. long. 90 40', andN. lat. 47® BRESSVIRE, a town of Poidtou, in the Orleanois, in Fiance, fituated about thirty-five miles north-wed of BREGMA, in anatomy, the fame with finciput. See Poiftiers; W. long. 3c/, and N. lat. 46° 50. Anatomy, p. 154. BREST, in geography, an excellent port-town of BriBREIDEWICK, a cape on the fouth-wefl of Iceland, tany in France; W. long. 4®, and N. lat. 48° 25 . in the northern ocean. Brest, or Brea.st, in archite&ure, a term fometimes BREMEN, the capital of the duchy of the fame name, ufed for the member of a column, more ufually called in Lower Saxony, fituated on tee river Welch, in 8° torus. See Torus. do' E. long, and 73° 2s' N. lat. in timber buildings, are pieces in the This city and duchy belongs to the king of Great BREST-yiiwwerr, outward thereof, into which the girders are framed: Britain, as ele&or of Hanover. this, in the ground-door, is called a ceil; and; in the BREMERVHOIDE,, a fortified town of the duchy of garret-door, abeam. Bremen, about feventeen miles0 north of Bremen; E. As to their fize, it is the fame with that of girders. long. 8° jsR and N. lat. 53 48/. See Girders. BREMGARTEN, a town of Switzerland, in the coun- BRESTE, or Bressici, the capital of the palatinate ty of Baden, about twelve miles wed of Zurich; E. of Breffici, and of Polefia, in Poland, fituatedon the long. 8° 15', and N. lat. 470 20'. river Bog, about eighty miles ead of Warfaw; E. BREMINGHAM, in geography. See Birmingham. long. 240, and N. lat. 52®. BRENBERG, in geography. See Bernburg. BRETESSE, in heraldry, denotes a line embattled on BRENT, iri geography, a market town of Devonlhire, both fides. fituated twenty-feven miles fouth-weftof Exeter; W. BRETON, or Cape-ereton, an American ifland, fublong. 4° 7% and N. iat. yo° 30,. ' jed to the Ehgldh, and feparated from New-Scotland Brent a fpecies of goofe with a black neck, and by a narrow dreight called Canfo : it is about one huna white collar round; ulually confounded with the dred miles in length, and fifty in breadth, and is fitu-9 barnacle, though in reality a diftindt fpecies. ated between 6i° and 62° W. long, and between 45 It is a little larger than the common duck, and is and 48° N. lat. deferibed by authors under the name of anas torquata. BRETVEIL, a town of Normandy, in France, about BRENTA, a liquid meafure ufed at Rome. thirty-five-miles fouth of Rouen; E. long. i°, and BREN FE, in geography, a river which, taking its rife lat. 48° 50'. in the bifnopric of Trent, in Germany, runs fouth- Bretveil is alfo the name of a town in Picardy, about ead through the Venetian territories, and falls into the fix leagues from Amiens. Adriatic fea, oppofite to Venice. BREUBERG, a country and town of Germany, in the BRENTFORD, a market-town of Middlefex, about circle of Franconia, fituated upon the banks of the feven 0miles wed of London; W. long. 7', and N. Maine. lat 51 26'. BREVE, in law, is any writ direded to the chancellor, BRENTWOOD, orBuRNTWooo, a market town of judges, fheriffs, or other officers, whereby a perfon is Effex, about fifteen0 miles ead of London; E. long. fummoned, or attached, to anfwer in the king’s court, 15', and N. lat. 51 qj'. <bc. BREPHOTROPHIUM, an hofpital for the mainte- Breve perquirere, the purchafing of a writ or licence nance of children; notunlike our foundling-hofpital. for trial in the king’s courts; whence comes the preSee Hospital. fent ufage of paying 6 s. 8d. fine to the king in fuit, BRESCIA, a city of Italy, about thirty miles0 north/ of for money due on bond, where the debt is 401. and of 10 s, where it is 100I. . form of a diamond or fiquare, without any tail, and BRESICATE, in commerce, a kind of bays, of which equivalent to two meafures or minims. there is fome trade carried on with the negroes, be- BREVET, in the French cuftoms, denotes the grant of tween the river Gambia and Sierra Leone. The bed. f6me favour or donation from the king, in which fenfe it partly anfwers to our warrant, and partly to lettersforts for that purpofe are the blue and the red. BRESLAW, the capital of Silefia, fituated upon the patent. river Oder,-in 160 jc/ E. long, and 510 ij' N lat. BREVIARY, a daily office, or book of divine fervice, BRESMA, in ichthyology, a name ufed by fome for the in the Romifh church. It is compofed of matins, lauds, firft, third, fixth, and ninth vefpers, and the bream. See Bream. BRESSE, a territory of Burgundy, in France; it is compline, or poll communio.