Brutish

Like a brute; beastly; ignorant; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; inhuman; ferocious; gro ly sensual. Brut'ishly, adv . In a brutish manner. Brut'ishne , n. Quality of being brutish; brutality. Brut'ism, n. The quality of a brute; extreme stupidity. (R.) Bru'ton, a town of England, in Somersets hire. Manf. Silks, woollens, hosiery. Pop. 4,364. care ed and trusted. But the stern republican spirit of B. rendered it impo ible for all Cæsar's kindne to him to reconcile him to Cæsar's ambition; and he at length conspired with Ca ius and others, and slew him on the Ides of March, B. c. 44. Antony succeeded in exciting the popular indignation against the murderers, who fled from Rome, and raised an army, of which B. and Ca ius took the command; but being totally defeated at the battle of Philippi, where they encountered the army of Antony and Oct avian us, B. escaped with only a few friends, pa ed the night in a cave, and, as he saw his cause irretrievably ruined, requested Strato, one of his confidants, to kill him. For a long time his friend refused; but at last presenting the sword as he turned away his face, the noble Roman fell on it and expired, B. c. 36, in the 43d year of his age. Bru'tus, in Michigan , a p.-v. of Emmett co. Bru'tus, in New York , a township of Cayuga co. Bru'yere, JEAN DE LA. See LA BRUYÈRE. Bruyns'wick, in New York , a post-office of Ulster co. Brya'ceæ, n. pl. [Gr. bruo, I sprout.] ( Bot .) An order of plants, alliance Muscales . - DIAG. Spore-cases valvele , with an operculum, without elaters. - They are erect or creeping, terrestrial or aquatic, cellular plants, having a distinct axis of growth, destitute of a vascular system, and covered with minute imbricated, entire or serrated leaves. The B. are chiefly distinguished from other mo es by the sporangium dehiscing transversely, either from the separation of the operculum or in an irregular manner. Bry'an, in Georgia , an E. county, bordering on the Atlantic; area 472 sq. m. It is watered by the Ogeechee and the Cannouchee rivers. Surface . Generally level. Soil , sandy, most of which is covered by pine forests. Cap . Eden. Bry'an, in Mi ouri, a post-village in Saline co., 70 m. N.W. of Jefferson city. Bry'an, in Ohio, a post-village, cap. of Williams co., 54 m. W.S.W. of Toledo. Bry'an, in Texas , a city, cap. of Brazos co. Pop . , 3,200. Bryan Court-House, in Georgia , a village of Bryan co., about 20 m. W. by S. of Savannah. Bry'ansburg, in Indiana, a post-village of Jefferson co., 76 m. S.S.E. of Indianapolis. Bryan's Store, in North Carolina, a post-office of Moore co. Bryansville, in Pennsylvania , a P. O. of York co. Bry'ant, WILLIAM CULLEN, an eminent American poet and man of letters, B. at Cummington, Ma achusetts, 1794. When he was but 13 years old, he wrote The Embargo, or Sketches of the Times, a satire ; and the Span ish Revolution, and other Poems , Boston, 1808. The youthful poet was admitted to the bar in 1815, and was engaged in the legal practice for ten years, mostly at Great Barring ton, Ma . In 1825 he finally quitted the profe ion, and went to reside in New York, where he has since exclusively devoted himself to literary pursuits. Thanatopsis , the unrivalled production of a youth only 18 years old, was published by him in the North Ameri can Review, in 1816. In 1821, B. published at Cambridge a volume containing The Ages, Thanatopsis , and a few others of his finest productions. The book established his reputation as a popular poet. All the pieces in it are polished to the last degree of nicety: the forms of expre ion, the imagery, and the general turn of thought, are perfectly simple and natural. The first outbreak of B.'s genius was the most rich and abundant. After the appearance of The Ages he published only short poems and at considerable intervals. The whole of his published poetry, the production of a full half century, is contained in a single volume of very moderate size. Several of B.'s poems appeared first in the New York Review , which he edited in 1825-27. In 1826 he became the editor of the Evening Post , one of the oldest and most influential newspapers in New York, with which he was connected until his death. B. was always a generous and uncompromising advocate of free soil and free institutions. He also labored effectually to diffuse a taste for the fine arts in America, became president of several a ociations for this purpose, and always showed himself a kind and judicious friend to young artists. As a prose-writer, his style was pure, easy and idiomatic. Few who have been compelled by circumstances to write so much, have written so uniformly well. An edition of his works, illustrated with 71 engravings, came out in London, 1858, and in 1869, his masterly translation of the lliad , was followed, in 1870, by its companion vol. the Ody ey . His Popular History of the U.S. appeared in 1874. Upon his 80th birthday he was presented with a handsome silver vase; in 1876, elected a member of the Ru ian Academy. D. in New York, June 12th, 1878.