Brocket

[See BROCK.] A red hart two years old, so named from its having only a single snag to its antler. (Sometimes written brock.) Brock'ett's Bridge, in New York, a post-office of Fulton co. Brock'ish, a . Brutal; animal ish; beastly. Brock'port, in New York , a thriving post-village of Sweden township, Monroe co., 17 m. W. of Rochester. There are a number of mills and factories here. Brock's'ville, in Tezas , a post-office of Ellis co. fighting with the rapier, or thrusting-sword, and the Brockton. See NORTH BRIDGE WATER. dagger. The Scots Highlanders, however, continued to Brock'town, in Arkansas , a post-office of Pike co. use the B. , as well as the target , or buckler, until they Brock'ville, in Pennsylvania , a mining village of were disarmed after the insurrection of 1745. Among the Highland clans, the B. was termed the claymore , and it was their national weapon. "I heard the broadsword's deadly clang." - Sir W. Scott. Schuylkill county, a few miles north-east of Pottsville. Brock'ville, in Indiana, a flourishing village of Stenben county, 9 miles N.E. of Angola, the county seat. co. -▲ post-village of Hunting don co. Broad Top Mountain, in Pennsylvania , situate partly in Bedford co., and partly in that of Hunting don. The highest point is about 2,600 feet above sea-level. The mountain contains two principal coal-basins, lying united counties of Grenville and Leeds, on the St. Lawrence, 125 m. S. W. of Montreal. This is a well-built and prosperous town, producing steam-engines, machinery, and other fabrics. Pop . 7,000. co. Brock'way, in Michigan , a post-township of St. Clair Brock'way Centre, in Michigan , a post-office of of the lower coals from one over the principal anti clinal into the other, and each compounded of several subordinate parallel troughs. This isolated double coal basin is separated from the bituminous coal-fields of the Alleghany Mountain upland, with an interval of 25 miles, by the great lower silurian anticlinal axis of Morrison's Cove and Nittany Valley. It contains in its deepest troughs about 900 feet of coal-measure, and takes in the Pittsburg coal-bed with one of the lime stones above it. Broadway, in New Jersey , a post-village of Warren co., on the Pohatoong Creek, 8 m. S. of Belvidere. Broadway, in Ohio , a post-office of Union co. Broadway Depot, in Virginia , a post-village of Rocking ham co., about 34 m. N.N.E. of Staunton. Broad well, in Illinois, a twp. and post-vill. of Logan co., 21 m. N.N.E of Springfield. Broad'well, in Kentucky, a post-office of Harrison co. Broad'wise, a. According to the direction of the breadth. Brocade, (brō-kād',) n. [Sp. brocado ; Fr. brocart , from Celt. broc , a point, a needle.] A description of stout silken stuff, variegated with gold and silver, raised and en riched with foliage, flowers, and other ornaments, and used for the dre es of both sexes during the 17th and 18th centuries. In an inventory of the wardrobe of Charles II., in the Bodleian Library, is mentioned "white and gold brocade at two pounds three and sixpence per yard, and coliere-du-prince brocade at two pounds three shillings per yard." Brocade was not known in England till after the 13th century, and was a great rarity and luxury upon the Continent in the 14th. Brocad'ed, a . Worked like brocade; as, a brocaded robe. "Should you the rich brocaded suit unfold, Where rising flow'rs grow stiff with frosted gold."-Gay. -Apparelled in brocade; as, a lady in brocade. Bro'cage, Bro'kage, n. A commi ion or profit gained by transacting busine for others. The busine of a broker; brokerage. Bro'cards, BROCARD US, BROCARDICA, n. pl . Properly, maxims or principles of law, as the Brocardica juris of Azo; but the word has come to be applied to maxims or proverbs generally. It is said by Vo ius to be derived from the Greek term prot arch i a , first elements; but others, with more probability, derive it from Burchard, or Brocard, bishop of Worms, who made a collection of canons, called from him Brocardica ; and as they abounded in short sententious sayings and proverbs, the name came to be applied to works of that description.