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 HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. 11 Braihy [brash*!], adj, full of small stones. — ^Lisle. Brave [braiv], adj, in good healthy hearty. *Ak. Cf. Sc. hraw. Breachy [bree'chi], adj. brackish ; applied to smuggled spirits which haye been impregnated with salt water. — ^Wise (note on Cooper). Bread and cheese [bred un cheez], sh, the leaves and the opening buds of the white thorn. Craicegtu oxyacantha.—J, B. and Wise. Break [braik], v. to tear. In Hants break is used for tear, and tear for break; as, *I have a-torn my best decanter or china disb.' 'I have ci-broke my fine cambrick apom.' — Grose ; Warner ; F. M. Brevet about [brevmt u-bout], v. to beat about, as a dog for game. Brickie. See Bmckle. Brighten [brei'tnl^^. a kind of lichen. Eecommended as a remedy for weak eye8.--W'i8e, New Forest, p. 176, Brindled [brin'dldl, adJ, severe, fierce, stem ; in the phrase, * a brindled look,' equivalent to Lat. tarve tuens, — ^Wise. Brit [brit], v, to shatter, like hops from being over-ripe. — Cooper. Also used of com. — Wise. To shed, to fall.— Lisle. Ex. * The com britSj means that the husk opens. See Pegge's Kentish Glossary, Brize [breiz], r. to press. 'Brize it down,* press it down. — Wise, New Forest, Bather perhaps Prize, which see. Brock [brok], v, to tease, chaflf, or badger. From brock, a badger. — Winch. Sch, Ql. Broken-mouthed [broa'kun-mou-dhd], adj, said of a person (or animal) who has lost his teeth. — Wise. Broody [broo'di], adj. spoken of a hen when inclined to sit ; ' tbe hens are broody.^ — F. M. Brook-lime [braok-leim], sK Veronica BeccaJmnga. — J. B. Broom-dasher [bmom-dash'ur], sb. one who pulls heath and makes it into brooma — ^N. H. Brow [brou], adj. brittle ; but in the New Forest applied only to short, snapper, splintering timber of a bad quality. — ^Wise, New Forest. Ak. has brow, brittle. Brownie [brou*ni] sb. a bee. — Wise, New Forest. See Low Brown. Bmokle [braki], adj. brittle, easily broken. — K H. Brum [brum], adj. without money. — Winch. Sch. Gl. From Lat. brumaf * midwinter,' denoting the extremity of bareness in a boy's pocket. — ^Adams' Wykehamica, p. 418. Bmmmell [brum'ul], sb. a bramble or blackberry {Rubus fruticosus), — Warner ; F. M. ; Hal. ; J. J3. See Bumble-kite. Brush [brush], sb. (I) A quarrel, a hurried fight. — N. H. (2) * A brush of a boy,' means a sharp, qtiick, active boy. — ^Wise. Cf. the phrase * to bnuh about,' to be active, stir nimbly.
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