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 121 Braave. First rate, very well, capital. This is a very representative word in the Cornish dialect. " He's gittin on braave," i.e., very well. How be'ee ? word hrave for what is not only valiant and good, but fine and spruce. Braa set-up. A row, a fuss. Brace. The mouth of a shaft. W.N. Braggashans. Bragging, u.j.t. Braggety. Mottled. Often used of the skin of a baby's limbs, " See what braggety legs he's got." Braging. Eaging. M.A.c. A corruption of raging, or perhaps, from hridzhan or Iredion, Celtic Cornish, to boil. Brandis. An iron triangular stand with three short legs for resting the crock, kettle, &c., on, over the fire. Brash. An eruption on the skin. Breach. Coarse, furzy, and heathy ground on which the turf has been cut and burnt. Tonlcin, Breachy. Brackish, saltish. Breedy. To make a fishing net. Breeming, or Briming. A phosphorescent shining, or sparkling of the sea at night, when agitated by steam-paddles, &c. Briming, Couch. Briny, Carew. Breez, or Browse. Small-coal, broken wood-fuel, and such-like. In Celtic Cornish hrowsian, means crumbs, fragments ; and brosy to destroy. Breal, or Breel. A mackerel. B.v.
 * ^ Braave thenk'ee," and so on. Spenser used the