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 B R U ( 683 ) B R U gown ; but to (badow vermillion, or to lay upon any BRUMALIA, in Roman antiquity, feflivals of Bacchus dark ground behind a pidture, or to fhadow yellow celebrated twice a-yearj.the firll on the twelfth of berries in the darkeft places, when you want lake, the calends of March, and the other on the eigh<bc. It is bell and brightell when burnt in the fire, teenth of the calends of November. They were mtill it be red hot, although, if you would colour any ftituted by Romulus, who, during thefe fealls, ufed hare, horfe, dog, or the like, it ihould not be burnt; to entertain the fenate. Among other heathen feliibut, for other ufes, it is bell when it is burnt ; as for vals which the primitive Chrillians were much incliinflance, for colouring wood, pods, bodies of trees, ned to obferve, Tertullian mentions the brumae or bruor any thing e'lfe of wood, or any dark ground of a malia. BRUNELLA, in botany. See Prunella. pidture. See DyingI BROWNISTS, in church-hiftory, a religious fed, BRUNIA, in botany, a genus of the pentandria monowhich fprung up in England towards the end of the gynia clafs. The flowers are aggregated; the filaXVIth century. Their leader was one Robert Brown, ments of the llamina are inferted into the ungues of born at Northampton. They feparated from the efta- the petals ; the lligma is bifid, and the feeds are blifhed church, on account of its diTcipline and form Angle. There are fix fpecies, all natives of ./Ethiof government. They equally difliked epifcopacy and opia. prelbyterianifm. They condemned the folemn cele- BRUNSBUTTEL, a port-town of Holflein, in the bration of marriages in churches, maintaining, that circle of Lower Saxony, in Germany, fituated at the of the river Elbe : E. Ion. 8° 42'’, and N. lat. matrimony being a political contrad, the. confirmation mouth of it ought to proceed from the civil magiflrate. They 540 ic/. It is fubjed to Denmark. rejeded all forms of prayer, and held, that the Lord’s BRUNSFELSIA, in botany, a genus of the penfanprayer was not to be recited as a prayer; being given dria monogynia clafs. The corolla is long and lhaped only as a model, upon which to form our prayers. like a tunnel; the berry is unilocular, and contains BRUCA, the name of a river- and fea-port town of Si- many feeds. cily, in the valley of Noto. BRUNSWICK, the capital of the duchy of Brunfwick,. BRUCHSAL, a town of the bilhopric of Spires, in the in the circle of Lower Saxony, in Germany, fituated palatinate of the0 Rhine, in Germany : E. Ion. 8° 30', on the river Oeker, about 35 miles eall of Hanover : and N. lat. 49 15'. E. Ion. io° 30', and N. lat. 52® 3c/. BRUCHUS, in zoology, a genus of infeds belonging The eledor of Hanover is llyled duke of Brunfwick', to the order of caleoptera. The feelers are filiform, though he has no property in, or dominion over, the and gradually increafe in thicknefs. There are feven city of that name, which belongs to the duke of Brunffpecies, viz. the pifi,, has grey elytra interfperfed wick Wolfembuttle. with white fpots, and a white fundament with two BURNTISLAND, a parliament-town on the coalt of. black fpots. It is a native of North America, and Fife, in Scotland, about ten miles north-well of Edeftroys whole fields of peafe : It is now found in fe* dinburgh; W. long. 30, and N. lat. 56° I2/. veral of the fouthern parts of Eurppe; where it does BRUSH, an inllrument made of brillles, hair, wire, or great injury to the* corn. 2. The theolromas with fmall twigs, to clean cloaths, rooms, and alfo to. whitilh elytra interfperfed with black points. It fre- paint with. There are various forts of them, dillinquents the theolroma or chocolate trees in the Eall guilhed by their lhape or ufe. In the choice of paintIndies. 3.' The gleditfiae, with ftriated elytra of ers brulhes, obferve whether the briftles are fall bound the fame length with the belly, a pitch-coloured body, in the Hocks, and if the hair be Hrong and lie clofe and green feelers. It is a native of America. 4. together; for if they fprawl abroad, fueh will never The badris, with fmooth elytra, a hoary body, and' work well ; and if they are not fafl bound in the Hock, the hind part of«the thighs oval. If frequents the the briltles will come out when you are ufing them, palm-trees of Jamaica. 5. The granarius, has black and fpoil your work, as may be feen where the lobfe elytra; the fore feet are red, and the hind-feet are hairs of the brulh have lain up and down in the colours dentated. It frequents the feeds of plants in differ- laid on, to.the great detriment of.the work. ent parts of Europe. 6. The femiparius is black, Wine-brulhes are of ufe for fcrubbing thofe filver,: with the bafe of the feelers and fore-feet teftaceous. • copper, and brafs pieces, which are to be gilded over,, ' It is about the fize of a loufe, and a native of Eu- in order to. clear them perfedly from any dirt, ruff, or rope. 7. The pedicornis, with comb-lhaped feelers filth, which may adhere to them, and, if not brulhed longer than the body. It is a native of Barbary and off, would hinder the doling of the gold with them. China. They, are therefore ufed by gilders, filverfmiths, &r. BRUGES, a city and port-town of Flanders, eleven and are ufually-fold by ironmongers. Beard-brulhes miles eaft of Ofiend, and twenty-four north-well of pay a duty, bn importation, of 1 s, 3-r‘~yd. the grbfs 0 Ghent: E. Ion. 3 5', and N. lat. 51° id'. or twelve dozen; whereof ts..i-£ is drawn back on There is a navigable canal from Ollend to Bruges, them. Comb-brulhes pay 2 s. 6 ~d. for which has Hill the bell foreign trade of any town in exporting the fame number; and of this 2s. 3d. Tis repaid. Flanders. Head-brulhes 3-j^d. die dozen ; rubbingBRUISE, in furgery, the fame with contufion. See brulhes 3x1-^.paytheis.dozen; weavers-brulhes n-r^d.. € q n.t u s to n, and Sur.ger. y .. for the fame number;, in all which a proportional; drawbacks