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 B R O f 680 ^ B R O The Brtftol waters are taken medicinally only du- other ornaments, according to the fancy of the merchants or manufacturers. ring the hot months* as from April to September. Bristoi,in botany, a name fometimes given to Formerly the word figrtified only a ftuflf, wove all the Hchnis. See Lichnms. of gold,, both in the warp and in the woof, or all of BRITAIN, or Great-britain, the moft confiderable filver, or of both mixed together; thence it pafled to of ail the European iflands, lies between 50° and 6o° thofe of fluffs in which their was filk mixed, to raile and terminate the gold or filver flowers: But at preN. lat. and between 20 E. long, and 6° W. long. The general divifion of Britain, is into South and fect all fluffs, even thofe of filk alone, whether they North Britain, or England and Scotland. be grograms of Tours or of Naples, fattins, and even New Brita/IN, a large country of North America, taffeties or luftrings, if they be but adorned and workcalled alfo Terra Labrador, has Hudfon’s bay and ed with fome flowers, or other figures, are called bro-. llrait on the north and weft; Canada and the river of cades. St Lawrence, on the fouth; and the Atlantic ocean Brocade/><?//, the Englifti name of a fpecies of limax. on the eaft. See Limax. It is fubjedt to Great-Britain, but yields only Ikins BROCATEL, or Brocadel, a kind of coarfe brocade; chiefly ufed for tapeftry. and furs. BRITANNIC A, in botany, the trivial name of a fpe- BROCCOLI, a kind of cabbage cultivated for the ufe cies of Rumex. SccRumex. of the table; the manner of drefling which is this: BRITAN Y, a province of France, furrounded by the When their heads are gfown to their full bignefs, Englifh channel and the bay of Bifcay, on the north, they are to be cut off, with about four inches of the weft, and fouth ; and bounded on the eaft by the pro- tender ftem ; the outer lkin is then to be dripped off the ftem, after which they are to be waftied, and vince of Orleanois. BRITE, or Bright, in hufbandry. Wheat, barley, boiled in a clean linnen cloth, as is praCtifed for caulior any other grain, is faid to brite, when it grows o- flowers. They are tenderer than any cauliflower, though vever ripe, and {hatters. BRITTLENESS, that quality of bodies, on account ry like them in tafte. of which they are denominated brittle, or which fub- BROCK, among fportfmen, a term ufed to denote a badger. jedts them to be eafily broken. Brittle bodies are likewife very hard and durable, A hart too of the third year is called a brock, or barring accidents; and it is remarkable, that tin, brocket; and a hind of the. fame year, a brocket’s though tough in itfelf, makes all other metals brittle, After. when mixed with them. BROD, a town of Sclavonia, fituated on the river Save, BRIVE la Gaillarde, a town of France in the Li- about fixteeng miles fouth of Pofega : E. long. 180 jo', N. lat. 45 20'. moufin, upon the Coureze. BRIXEN, a city of Tyrol in Germany,0 about fifty BRODERA, or Brodra, a city of Afia, in the counmiles north-eaft of Trent: E. long. 11 45', N. lat. try of the Mogul and kingdom of Gnzurat, where0 there is a great trade in cotton cloths : E. long. 73 46° 45'. BRIZA, a genus of the triandria digynia clafs. There 30', N. lat. 220 25'. are five fpecies of Briza, two of which are natives of BRODIUM, a pharmaceutical term, fignifying the fame Britain, viz. the media or middle quaking grafs, and as jufculum, or the liquor in which fome folid medithe minor or fmall quaking-grafs. They grow in pa- cine is preferved, or with which fomething elfe is diluted. fture-grounds. BRIZE, in hulbandry, denotes ground that has lain long BROGLING for eels, the fame with fniggling. See Sniggling. untilled. Briz{belters ufed by gardeners who have not BROGLIO, a town of Peidmont in Italy, fituated walls on the north-lide, to keep cold winds from da- near the frontiers of Provence, about twenty five0miles/ maging their beds of melons. They are inclofures a- north-weft of Nice: E. long. 6° 42', N. lat. 44 I2. It is the capital of a county of the fame name. bout fix or feven feet high, and an inch or more thick; made of ftraw, fupported by ftakes fixed into the BROITSCHIA, a city of Afia in Indoftan, about twelve ground, and props acrofs on both infide and outfide ; leagues from Surat. and faftened together with willow twigs, or iron-wire. BROKEN wind, 'hmong farriers, is a malady that hapBROADALBIN, a diftritt or county of Perthfhire, in pens to a horfe when he is fuffered to Hand too long the {table, without exercife : By this means he conScotland, bordering upon Argyleftiire: It gives the intradls thick humours in fuch abundance, that, title of earl to a branch of the noble family of adheringgrofsto and the hollow parts of his lungs, they flop Campbell. BROAD-/*, in the fea-language, denotes a volley of his wind-pipe. This diftemper is known by the horfe’s heaving and cannon, or a general difcharge of all the guns on one drawing up his flanks together, and blowing wide his fide of a fhip at once. BROCADE, or Brocado, a fluff of gold, filver, or noftrils. To cure this diforder, take the guts of a hedge-hog, filk, raifed and enriched with flowers, foliages, and dry