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 <575 B R E WING. for ftrong drink, after only once or twice fealding Ji-ole for a night together, that the (leant of the boiling people water; which is fq wrong, that fuch beer or. ale water or wort may penetrate into the wood ; this way is with will not fail of tailing thereof for half, if not a whole fuch a furious fearcher, that unlefs the cade is new-hopp- year afterwards. To prevent this inconvenience, when ed juft before, it will be apt to fall to pieces. your brewing is over, put up' Lome water fealding hot, Another Way. and let it run through the grains; then boil it and fill upTake a pottle, or more, of ftone-lime, and put it into the calk, ftop it well, and let it liand till it is cold; do the calk^ on this pour fome water, and ftop it up di- this twice ; then take the grounds of ftroag drink and redtly, (baking it well about. boil in it green walnut-leaves and new hay or wheatftraw, and put ail into the calk, that it be.full, and ftop Another Way. it Take along linen rag, and dip it in melted brim- clofe : After this, ufe it for fmall beer half a year toftone; light it at the end, and let it hang pendant with gether, and then it will be thoroughly fweet and: fit for the upper part of the rag faftened to the wooden bung; ftrong drinks. this is a moft quick and fure' way, and will not only Wine-cafks. (weeten, but help to fine the drink. These are the cbeapeft of ail others to furnifh a perAnother. fon readily with, as being many of them good calks for becaufe the fack and white-wine forts are Or, to make your calk more, pleafant, you may ufe malt-liquors, feafoned to. hand, and will greatly improve beers the vintners way thus: Take four ounces of (lone brim- already and ales that are put in them : But beware of the Rheftone, one ounce of burnt allum, and two ounces of niih calks for ftrong drinks ; for its wood is fo tincbrandy; melt all thele in an earthen pan over hot coals, turedwine this lharp wine, that" it will hardly ever be and dip therein a piece of new canvas, and inftantly free ofwith and therefore fuch calk is beft ufed for fmall fprinkle thereon the powders of nutmegs, cloves, cori- beer: theit;claret will a great deal fooner be brought ander, and anife feeds : this canvas fet on fire, and let it into a ferviceablecalk for holding ftrong drink, if it is burn hanging in the calk faftened at the end with the two or three timesftate fealded with grounds of barrels, and wooden bung, fo that no fmoke comes out. afterwards ufed for fmall beer for fome time. But to For a mujly Cafk. cure a claret-calk of its colour and tafte, put a peck of Boil fome pepper in water, and fill the calk with it ftone-liroe into a hoglhead, and pour upon it three pails of water; bung immediately with a wood or cork-bung, fealding hot. lhake it well about a quarter of an hour, and let ,it To prepare a new VefJ'el to keep Flail-liquors in. and Hand a day and night, and it will bring off the red coA new vefiel is rnoft improperly ufed byTome ignorant lour, and alter the tafte of the calk very much. B R E BREY, a town of the bilhopric of Liege, in Germany,0 about fixteen miles 0north of Maeftricht; E. long. 5 40', and N lat. 51 15'. BREYNIA, in botany, a fynonime of the capparis. See Capparis. BRI ANCON, a town of I>auphiny, in France, fituated about forty live miles fouth-eaft of Grenoble; E. long. 6° 20', and N. lat. 440 50'. BRIAR, in botany, the Englifn name of a fpecies of rofa. See Rosa. BRI ARE, a town of the Me of France, fituated on the river Loire,0 about feventy-five miles fouth of Paris; E. long. 2 4$', andN. lat. 47° 4c/. BRIBE, a gift given to a perfon for doing or forbearing any action that he ought to do -or forbear. BRIBERY. See Law. BRICIANI, thofe of the order of that name. This was a military order, inftituted by St Bridget, queen of Sweden, wlro gave them the rules and co'tftit'.nions of thofe of Malta and St Auguftin. This order was approved by pope Urban V. They were to fight for the burying of the dead, to relieve and aflift widows, orphans, the lame,. fick,

B R I BRICK, a. fat reddilh earth, formed into long, fquares,. four inches broad, and eight or nine long; by means of a wooden mould, and then baked or burnt in a kiln,-to lerve the purpofes of building. Bricks are of great antiquity, as appears by the-facred writings, the tower and walls of Babylon being with them. In the eaft, they baked their bricks in the fun; the Romans tiled them unburnt, only leaving them to dry for four or five years in the air. The Greeks chiefly tiled three kinds of bricks ; the firft whereof was called dtd(lron,~ i. e. of two palms ; the fecond, tetrad6ron, of four palms ; the third, X_pentad6ren~, of five palms. They had- alfo other bricks, juft half each of thofe, to render their works more folid, and alfo more agreeable to the fight,'by the diverfities of the figures and fizes of the bricks. Pliny fays, that to make good bricks they muft hot confift of any earth that is- fuil ofLand or gravel, nor of fuch as is gritty or ftony; but of a greyish mail, or whitilh chalky clay, or at leaft of a reddilh earth : He alfo adds, that the beft feafon for making bricks is the fpring; becaufe, if mitde in fummer, they will ba..