Brow bound

Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. "He was brow-bound with the oak." - Shaks. as Lord Brougham and Vaux. From 1830 to 1834, Lord B. had the sole conduct of the Reform Bill in the House of Peers, and the series of measures identified with his name, and which were carried into effect during that-v. a. To bound; to limit; to be at the edge of. --Milton. period, may be summed up thus: -The abolition of Brow-antler, n. The first shoot on a deer's head. slavery in the British colonies; the opening of the East India trade, and the destruction of the Company's monopoly; the amendment of the criminal law; vast improvements in the whole system of municipal jurisprudence, both as regards law and equity; the settlement of the charter of the Bank of England; the total reform of the Scottish municipal corporations; the entire alteration of the Poor Laws; and an ample commencement made in reforming the Irish Church, by the abolition of 10 bishoprics. In 1834, B. resigned office along with his colleagues. From that time forward, B. held an independent position in the House of Lords, criticising all parties alike, but principally devoting himself to the legal busine before it. In 1848, B. , who had purchased an estate at Cannes, in the S. of France, proposed to the newly established French Republic to be naturalized as a citizen in that country; but he was informed that his wish could be carried out only on his ceasing to be an English peer. During the period which elapsed from his partial release from the duties of the senate and the forum, Lord B. contributed largely to modern literature. In 1838, he published the collected edition of his speeches, with notes and introductions, and a discourse on the eloquence of the ancients. He edited Paley's Natural Theology , and wrote Di ertations on Subjects of Science connected with Natural Theology . In 1839 appeared his Historical Sketches of Statesmen -v. n. To become brown. who flourished in the Reign of George III ., a work completed in 1843. He next edited the speech of Demos thenes de Corond, and published his own Political Phi losophy. B. , now retired from official life, gave his whole energies to the amendment of the law; obtained the establishment of county courts, and labored for Bankruptcy Reform with a zeal approaching to enthusiasm. In 1850, he contributed to the Royal Society a paper of Experiments and Observations on the Properties of Light , followed up by further treatises, in which he showed the principle upon which Newton established his theory of light to be inconclusive. In 1855 appeared his Analytical View of Newton's Principia ; which was succeeded by a treatise On the Integral Calculus , and many articles on "Light" contributed to the Transactions of the French Institute, of which body he was a member, and before whom he delivered an addre in French, on this subject. B. in his latter years was elected Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, President of the London University, and D.C.L. of Oxford; took little or no part in political affairs, and lived in retirement at his seat at Cannes, on the Mediterranean; devoting himself till almost the very last day of his life to philosophical and scientific pursuits. D. May 9, 1868. Brougham, ( broom ,) n. A kind of small two or four wheeled carriage for general use. Broughshane, ( broh's hain .) a town of Ireland, co. Antrim, 4 m. E.N.E. of Bally men a; pop . 1,045. Brought, imp . and p . of BRING, q. v. Brought on, JOHN CAM HOB HOUSE, F.R.S., LORD, an Eng- lish author and statesman, в. 1786. He was educated at Cambridge, and while there became acquainted with Brow'er, in Pennsylvania, a post-office of Berks co. Brow'er's Mills, in N. Carolina, a post-office of Randolph co.