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[ F. brave, > E. brave, q. v.] Well done! good! sometimes used as a noun: as, "with bravo and handelapping," Carlyle, French Rev., II. v. 6. The Italian Prima Donna sweeps a courtesy of carele pity to the over-facile pit which unsexes her with the bravo ! Lowell , On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners. [In Italian the word is an adjective, and the correct usage is to say bravo to a male singer or actor, brava to a female, and bravi to a company; but in French and properly in English the word is a mere interjection. Careful persons familiar with the Italian usage do, however, discriminate as to gender.] bravo (brā'vō), n.; pl. bravos or bravoes (-vōz). [It. (ML. bravus ), Stab, like bravoes , all who come that way. Church ill , The Apology. Was not this Venice, and is not Venice forever a ociated with bravoes and unexpected dagger thrusts? Howells, Venetian Life, xi. bravura (brå-võ'rä), n. and a. [It., bravery, spirit, bravo : see brave .] I. n. In music, a florid air, requiring great force and spirit in the performer, and serving to display his or her power, flexibility of voice, and distinctne of articulation. II. a. In music , spirited; florid; brilliant: as, a bravura air: chiefly applied to vocal compositions, but occasionally to instrumental. braw (bra), a. and n. [Sc.: see brave .] I. a . 3t. To make fine, showy, or splendid. [Rare.] Brave; fine; gay; handsome; pleasant; agree IMG:content-2453.png:[blocks in formation] able; worthy; excellent; stout: as, a braw new gown; a braw man; braw lads and bonny la es. [Scotch.] There's braw, braw lads on Yarrow braes. Burns, Gala Water. II. n. pl. One's best apparel; finery. brawdt, v. t. See broud, broid . brawderyt, n. An obsolete variant of broidery . brawet (brou'et), n. A young eel. Also written braw at . [North. Eng.] brawll (bral), v. [Early mod. E. also brall , brallen , cry out, vociferate, = D. brallen , boast, Dan. bralle , jabber, chatter, = MHG. prālen, G. prahlen , boast, vaunt, flaunt; apparently identical with ME. brawlen , braulen , quarrel, W. brawl , a boast, brolio , boast, vaunt, bra gal , vociferate, etc. Cf. also F. brailler (= Pr. brailar ), cry out, bawl, prob. braire , bray: see IMG:content-2454.png:[blocks in formation] =Syn, Broil , Affray , etc. See quarrel , n. brawl2 (bral), n . [Early mod. E. also brall ; a corruption of earlier bransle , also written bran- sel, brantle, brangle, etc., bransle , now branle , a dance, same as bransle , branle , verbal n. of bransler , branler , shake, move, etc.: see brandle , brantle , branle.] A kind of dance; a branle. Good fellowes must go learne to daunce, The brydeal is full near-a; There is a brall come out of Fraunce, IMG:content-2455.png:[blocks in formation] 3. The flesh of a muscular part of the body: bray2 (brā), n. [ bray , a loud cry, also as, the brawn of the arm, thigh, etc. It was ordained that murtherers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. Hall , Hen. VII., an. 15. 4. Well-developed muscles; muscular strength. Here, then, is a great stalwart man, in perfect health, all brawn and rude muscle, set up before us as the ideal S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 54. 5. Figuratively, the arm: from its muscles or strength. [Rare.] I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver, And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn . Shak., T. and C., i. 3. I had purpose Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn , Or lose my arm for't. Shak., Cor., iv. 5. 6. Head-cheese. - Mock brawn, the flesh of a pig's head and feet cut in pieces, and boiled, pickled, and pre ed into a form. brawnedt (brand), a . [ brawn + -ed2 .] Brawny; strong: as, " brawned bowrs," Spenser , F. Q., I. viii. 41. brawner (bra'ner), n. [ brawn + -er1.] A boar killed for the table. brawn-fallent (brân' fâ "ln), a . Having the brawny or muscular parts of the body shrunk or fallen away; wasted; thin; weak. Were not Milo his armes braw nef allen for want of wrastlyng? Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 127. brawnine (bra'ni-nes), n. [ brawny + -ne .] The quality of being brawny; strength; hardine . This brawnine and insensibility of mind is the best armour against the common evils and accidents of life. Locke , Education, § 113. brawny (bra'ni), a. [ brawny , fleshy (of fruit); Oxe dounge about her rootes yf that me trete The pomes sadde and brawny wol it gete. The muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. My grave lord-keeper led the brawls ; The seal and maces danced before him. IMG:content-2456.png:[blocks in formation] brawlie, adv . See brawly . brawling (brâ'ling), n. [ME. braulyng ; verbal 1. of brawll , v.] The act of quarreling; specifi- cally, in Eng . law , the offense of quarreling or creating a disturbance in a church or church- yard. brawling (bra'ling), p . a . [Ppr. of brawll , v.] 1. Contentious; quarrelsome; noisy. I know she is an irksome, brawling scold. Shak ., T. of the S., i. 2. The spirit-grieving sounds of brawling commerce. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 160. J. Mede , Apost. of the Latter Times, ii. braws (brâz), n . pl . See braw , n . braxy (brak'si), n. and a. [E. dial., Sc. also braxes , braxit , also bracks , braik . Cf. brack1 and brash2.] I. n. 1. A disease of sheep character- ized by inflammation of the bowels and reten- tion of the urine: also called the sickne in some parts of Scotland. The name is also given variety of other diseases of sheep.-2. A to a sheep having the braxy; hence, the mutton of IMG:content-2457.png:[blocks in formation] brayl (bra), v . t. [ brayen , brayer , breier, brehier , F. broyer = Pr. Sp. bregar , pound, bray, prob. break , q. v.] Τo pound or beat thoroughly, as with a pestle or other instrument; triturate, crush, mix, etc., by beating or any analogous action: as, to bray 2. Making the noise of rushing water: as, drugs; to bray printers' ink. See brayer1. " brawling springs," Collins . IMG:content-2458.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2459.png:[blocks in formation] bray2 (bra), v. [ brayen , braire , bragire , bray, bragare , cry, squall, prob. of Celtic origin: see brag and brawll.] Ι. in trans. 1. To utter a loud and harsh cry: with reference now especially to the a , but for- merly also to the bull, deer, and other animals, IMG:content-2460.png:[blocks in formation] Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1095. like the a . The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. Arms on armour clashing bray'd Milton , P. L., vi, 209, Horrible discord. Ascham , Toxophilus, Works, p. 170. Push'd up the bray , indignantly they feel The clanking lash and the retorted steel. There he stands with unimpeachable pa ivity amid the shouldering and braying ; a spectacle to men. Carlyle, French Rev., II. v. 2. braylet, n. and v . See brail . braynet, n. See brain . brazel (brāz), v . t .; pret. and pp. brazed , ppr. brazing. [ brasen , brasian , cover with bra , bræs , bra : see bra 1 . Cf. glaze , gla ; graze , gra .] To cover or ornament with bra , or as if with bra : as, "a tripod richly brazed , " Chapman , Ody ey, xv. That braze the horizon's western rim. Lowell, Under the Willows. braze2 (brāz), v. t .; pret. and pp. brazed , ppr. brazing. [F. braser , OF. braser , solder, bras a , harden by fire: see bra 1 and braizel. Partly confused with brazel , from the same ult. source.] 1. To solder, especially with hard solder, such as an alloy of bra and zinc. Let me wring your heart: for so I shall,... If damned custom hath not braz'd it so, That it is proof and bulwark against sense. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 4. IMG:content-2461.png:[blocks in formation] brazen Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear. Shak ., A. and C., iv. 8. 3. Extremely strong; impenetrable: from bra often serving as a type of strength, impenetrability, and the like: as, "environed with a bra zen wall," Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 4.-4. Impudent; having a front like bra . Such a brazen dog sure never my eyes beheld. Goldsmith , She Stoops to Conquer, ii. Talbot... appeared daily with brazen front before the prince whose ruin he had plotted. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. Also spelled brasen . Brazen age. See ages in mythology and history, under age. Brazen dish, a bra dish made in the time of Henry VIII., and kept chained to a pillar at Wirksworth in Derby shire, England. It is used by the lead-miners in the Low Peak as a standard measure. Brazen horn. Same as burghmote -horn. Brazen sea (2 Ki. xxv. 13), in Jewish antiq., a large ve el of bra placed in Solomon's temple, called a molten sea in 1 Ki. vii. 23-25, where it is described. It stood on 12 brazen oxen, and was 10 cubits from brim to brim, 5 in height, and 30 in circumference. It was designed for the priests to wash themselves in before they performed the service of the temple.