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The mid-forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms. Keats, Endymion, i. brakes (brāk), n. [ brake , appar. brake , a thicket, etc.; cf. brake , brake bush , fern- brake .] The name given to Pteris aquilina and other large ferns. See Pteris . Others [leaves) are parted small like our ferns or brakes , hopper .] name for the gra hopper-warbler, Sylvia locus tell a , or Locus tell a navia. Macgil livray. [Local, British.] brakeman (brāk'man), n .; pl. brakemen (-men). 1. A man whose busine is to apply the brakes on a railroad-train which are operated by hand. -2. In mining , the man in charge of the winding-engine. Sometimes spelled break man , and in Great Britain often called brakesman . The shaft on brakent, n. An obsolete form of bracken . brake-shaft (brak's haft), n. which is wound the chain by which the power of a car-brake operated by hand is applied to the wheels. brake-shoe (brāk'shö), n. piece of wood or metal fitted to a brake-block, or forming one piece with it, and serving as a rubber to retard, by frietion with the wheel-tread or -tire, the movement of a wheel. - Brake-shoe valve, in an air or vacuum-brake, a valve so arranged as to relieve the pre ure upon the wheel when it becomes too great. Brake-shoe. brakesman (brāks' man), n.; pl. brakesmen (-men). See brakeman . brake-spool (brak'spöl), n . An enlargement, by a sleeve or otherwise, of a brake-shaft to give greater speed and le power to the brake. Car Builder's Dict. brake-strap (brāk's trap), The strap sur branding he pulley of a friction-brake. brakett, n. A Middle English form of braggets . brake-van (brak'van), n . On European railways, the van or car in a freight-train to the wheels of which the brake is applied. See brake3 , 9. 1. A horizontal brake-wheel (brak'hwel), n . hand-wheel on the platform of a railroad-car, or on the roof of a box-car, used to control the brake. 2. A heavy wheel furnished with cams to control the action of a trip-hammer. brakisht, a . See brackish . braky (bra'ki), a . [ brake + -y1.] Full of brakes; abounding with brambles or shrubs; rough; thorny: as, " braky thickets and deep sloughs," Bp . Hall , Heaven upon Earth. Redeem arts from their rough and brakey seats, where they lay hid and overgrown with thorns. B. Jonson, Discoveries. brallt. An obsolete spelling of brawl . Brama (bra'ma), n . [NL.] The typical genus of fishes of the family Bramide . The pomfret, B. ray i , is an example. Schneider , 1801. See cut under sea - bream . Bramah lock, pre . See the nouns. Bra mantes que (brä-man-tesk'), a . Relating to or having the character or style of the works of Bramante (1444-1514), a noted Italian arch i- tect, whose studies of the antique exerted much influence upon the cla ic revival. He prepared the original design for the rebuilding of St. Peter's at Rome, of which the execution was interrupted by his death. The epithet Bra mantes que was early applied to the style of architecture now called Renai ance, from the preeminent position held by Bramante in its formation. The artist who introduced Renai ance architecture, then called Bra mantes que , into Lombardy. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 182, note, E. Terry, Voyage, p. 105. bramantip (bra-man'tip), n. Same as bamalip . Buckhorn-brake, a name sometimes applied to the Bramatherium (brä-ma-the'ri-um), n. [NL.. flowering fern, Osmunda regal is. Cliff-brake, a com mon name of the genus Pella . -- Rock-brake, the plant of wagonette. A large and heavy variety of this vehicle is used for breaking in young horses to harne .-9. Any mechanical device for arresting or retarding the motion of a vehicle or car by means of friction. The most common form is that of curved wooden or iron shoes pre ed against the rims of the wheels. In this sense sometimes spelled break . See air-brake, IMG:content-2423.png:[blocks in formation] prop. * Brahmatherium , & Brahma1 + Gr. θηρίου , wild beast.] A genus of gigantic artiodactyl mammals of uncertain position, re related to vatherium . Like the latter, it had four horns, and its re mains occur with those of Sivatherium in the middle and late Tertiary deposits of the Sivalik hills in India. Fal coner and Cantle roy , 1845. bramble (bram'bl), n. [ brembel , brembil , bremmil , brambel , brēmbel , prop. brēmel (also brember , ME. brember : see bramble berry ), = ODan. bremle , brymle = LG. brummel (-beren, pl.), bramble; dim. of the form seen in ME. IMG:content-2424.png:[blocks in formation] midæ. Bramidæ (bram'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Brama + -ida.] A family of acanthopterygian fishes, represented by the genus Brama . It belongs to the superfamily Scombroidea , and is characterized by an oblong compre ed body, rounded head, long dorsal and anal fins with few anterior spines, and perfect thoracic ventral fins. The few species are inhabitants of rather deep seas. See cut under pomfret . The bramble flour that bereth the red hepe. Chaucer , Sir Thopas, 1. 35. bramble (bram'bl), v . i.; pret. and pp. bram bled , ppr. brambling . [ bramble , n.] To pick bramblės or blackberries. All persons found brambling , nutting, and otherwise trespa ing in