Brambled

Overgrown with brambles. Bramble-net, n. A net to catch birds. Brambling, BRAMBLE-FINCH, MOUNTAIN-FINCH, A. (Zool.) A bird of the family Fringillid a. It breeds in the more northern parts of Scand in a via; visiting Italy, Malta, Smyrna, ., in its winter migrations. It has no song, its call-note being a single monotonous chirp. It is rather larger than the chaffinch. The tail is forked, and its prevailing colors are black, white, and yellow. Bram'bly, a. Full of brambles. Bramidæ, n. pl. (Zool.) The Bream family. - See Bra'min, n. See BRAHMAN. BREAM. N.E. of London. It is an ancient place, noted chiefly for its annual fairs. Pop . 4,735. Brain'tree, in Ma achusetts, a post-township of Nor- folk co., 10 m. S. by E. of Boston. The manufacture of boots and shoes is carried on very extensively. Machinery, woollen goods, cordage, twine, mats, crash, , are also manufactured in the town. Brain'tree, in Vermont , a township of Orange co., 20 m. S. by W. of Montpelier, its surface, and having only a very small quantity of cineritious matter. Though its bulk is in general proportionally much smaller than the human B. , yet in some of the smaller birds, as the chaffinch and redbreast, it approaches that of the latter. In fishes the B. is yet more diminished; in the chub being only 1 to 842, and in the lamprey 1 to 1,425. It consists merely of two pairs of ganglia and a single one. The two anterior ganglia, or lobes, are the olfactory lobes, immediately behind which are two others, generally of larger size, called the optic lobes; while behind these is a single ganglion, or lobe, situated in the median line, and termed the cerebellum. The functions of the B. will be examined under the words NERVOUS SYSTEM, and PHRE NOLOGY. (Chem.) The chemical examination of the brain of animals was first undertaken by Vaugaslin, who found in the human brain 80 water, 7 albumen, 4:53 white fatty co. Braird, n. ( Scot .) [A.S. brord .] In Scotland, the spring- ing up of seeds, which, when they come up well, are said to have a good braird. -v. n. To spring up, as seeds. Braise, n. A French word, in common use among char- coal burners to designate the fine refuse coal which gathers about their pits. The material is much used as a covering for the heaps of wood to be charred; and about iron-works it serves a very useful purpose, when mixed with the great piles of ore to be calcined, keeping up for a long time the slow combustion required for this purpose. Brait, n. A commercial name of the rough diamond. Brake, n . [Swed. and Goth. brak a , to crash, crackle. When dry, the plant crackles under the feet.] The com- mon name of the Pteris , a genus of ferns, called also Braken . See PTERIS. matter, 0-70 red fatty matter, 1-12 osmazome, 1.5 phos--A place overgrown with brakes, briers, or brambles. phorus; acids, salts, and sulphur, 5-15. M. Couerbe, in an elaborate di ertation upon the composition of B. , finds a large proportion of cholesterine in it, and a erts, as the result of repeated examinations, that the proportion of phosphorus in the B. of persons of sound intellect is from 2 to 25 per cent.; in the brain of maniacs it is from 3 to 45; and in that of idiots, only from 1 to 1.5 per cent. (Med.) The B. , which is the most delicate and exquisitely formed of all the organs of the human body, is subject to a great variety of disorders, most of which will be treated of under their proper heads, in other parts of this work, but some of which it will be nece ary to notice here. Inflammation is one of the most common diseases to which the B. is subject, and may result from a number of causes: from external injuries, as blows or falls, the symptoms of which may not manifest themselves for many days; from the improper use of narcotics or stimulants; exposure to the cold or the action of the sun's rays; protracted study, exce ive joy,