BRANT, steep; a brant hill. Northumb.

BRASH, a fit, or tumbling one about. Northumb. BRAT, a coarse apron, a rag. Linc.

BRAUCHE OF BRAWCHE, rakings of straw to kindle fires.

BRAUCHIN, a collar for a horse, made of old stockings stuffed with straw. Cumb.

BRAUNDS or BROANS, i. e. brands, cleft or split wood for the fire. A seam of braunds, a horseload of billet-wood. A rick of braunds, a stack of wood cleft for the fire. Woaken or elmer braunds, oaken or elm timber.

BRAWN, a boar. Cumb. The brawn's head, the boar's head.

BRAY, to bray, to neigh; the horse brays. Berks. BRAD, opened and spread. Lanc.

BRAID, to resemble. York, West Riding.

BRAIN A MAN, i. e. knock his brains out. N.

BRAKE, a bush, N.

BRAND-NEW, quite new. They say, BRAN-SPANNEW, in Yorkshire.

BRANDRITH or BRANDER. Also the supporters of a corn-stack, to keep off mice, rats, &c. North.

BRASS, copper money. North.

BRAT, a child's pin-cloth.

BRAUGHWHAM, a dish made of cheese, eggs, bread and butter, boiled together. Lanc.

BRAY, to beat or pound. N.

BRAZEN, impudent. N. He is a brazen fellow.

BREADE, to spread or make broad. Northum.

BREAD-LOAF, household bread; opposed to rolls, or bread in a smaller form. N.

BREAK ONE'S HORN-BOOK, to incur displeasure. South.

BREAK, to break, to tear. Hamp. In this county break is used for tear, and tear for break; as, I have a-torn my best decanter or china dish; I have a-broke my fine cambric apron.

BREAK, a break is land that has lain long fallow, or in sheep-walks, is so called the first year after it has been ploughed or broken up. Norf. BREAU, spoon-meat; fat skimmed from the pot and oatmeal: the singular number of BREWIS. BRECKINS, fern. N.

BREE, to bree, to frighten.

BREEDS, the breeds of a hat, the brims of a hat. Glou.

BREEKS, breeches. N.

BREID, or BRADE; to breid, or brade of any one, that is to resemble them in disposition, as if of the same breed, Northumb.

BRENT-BROW, a steep hill, metaph. N.

BREE, broth without oatmeal. Lanc.

BREWSTER, a brewer. York. The Brewster Sessions, at Hull, mean the time when publicans are licensed, and are advertised by that name. BRINE, to brine, to bring; brine it hither, bring it hither. Norf.

BRICKEN, to bricken, to bridle up, or hold up the head.

BRIDE-WAIN, a custom in Cumberland, where all

the friends of a new-married couple assemble together, and are treated with cold pies, furmity, and ale; at the conclusion of the day, the bride and bridegroom are placed in two chairs, in the open air, or in a large barn, the bride with a pewter dish on her knee, half covered with a napkin; into this dish the company present put their offerings, the amount of which is sometimes forty or fifty pounds.

BRIAN; to brian an oven, to keep fire at the mouth of it, either to give light or preserve the heat. Northumb. Elsewhere this fire is called a

spruzzing.

BRICHOE, brittle. Chesh.

BRICK-TILES, bricks.

BRIDLE-STY, a road for a horse only. N. BRIDLEWAY and BRIDLE-ROAD. Kent.

BRIG, an utensil used in brewing and in dairies to set the strainer upon. N.

BRIGG, a bridge. N.

BRIGGS, irons to set over a fire. Lanc.

BRIMME; a sow goes to brimme, that is to boar. S. BRISS, dust. Exmoor.

BRITE, to brite or britt; spoken of hops, which. when they are over ripe, and fall out or shatter, are said to britt or brite. S.

BROACH, a spit, also a piercer; whence to broach a cask. Kent. and N. Derived from the French. BROACH-STEEPLE, a pyramidical spire, from its being pointed like a broach or spit N.

BROCK, a badger, or grey. N.

BROCK, the insect that produces the froth called cuckow-spit.

BROD, a kind of nail, called BRADS in the South. Likewise an awl. Derb.

BROGS, small sticks, used to catch eels, which is called BROGGING. Lanc.

BROKE, a rupture. Kent.

BROODY, spoken of a hen when inclined to stir. N. BROO-ER, a corrupt pronunciation of BROTHER. N. BROOK, to brook up, spoken of the clouds when they draw together, and threaten rain. S. BROWDEN, to browden on a thing, to be fond of it. N.

BRUART, blades of corn just sprung up.

brims of a hat. Lanc.

Also the

BRUCKE, to brucke, to make dirty. Northum.
BRUCKLED, dirty.

BRUSLE, to dry; the sun brusles the hay; brusled pense. Northum. Probably from the old French word, BRUSLER, to burn.

From the

BRUTTE, to brit or brutte, to browse; the cow bruttes the young wood. Kent. French word, BROUTER, to nibble.

BRUZZLED, applied to meat too much broiled. York.

BUBBLEY, snotty; the bairn has a bubbley nose. N. BUCK, of a cart or waggon, the body. Hamp. BUCK, the breast. Suss.

BUCKARD, or BUCKED, spoken of milk soured by keeping too long in the milk-bucket, or by a foul bucket. Exmoor.

BUCKEY-CHEESE, a sweet, rank cheese. Hamp. Perhaps from a rank, goatish taste; BoNc, in French, signifying a he-goat.

BUCKSOME, blithe, jolly. S.

BUCKLE-A-DOING-IT, set about it. York. The common expression is BUCKle-to.

BUD, a weaned calf of the first year, the horns then beginning to bud. Suss.

BUDGE, brisk, jocund: budge also means to stir, move, or walk away; do not budge from hence. BUER, a gnat. Northumb.

BUFFET, a stool. Derb.

BUG, to bend. Kent. Bug up.

BULDERING (weather), hot, sultry. Exm.

BULKAR, a beam.

BULLEN, hemp-stalks, pilled. N.

BULLIMONG, Oats, pease, and vetches, mixed. Ess. BULLOCK, a heifer. Berks.

BULLOCKING, bullying, swaggering. North.

BULL-JUMPINGS, milk drawn from the cow after the calf has sucked. Called also STROAKINGS. York.

BULL-SEGG, a gelded bull. N.

BULL-STANG, a dragon-fly. Cumb.

BULL-STANG, the upright stake in a hedge; quasi Bole-stang. N.

BULLY-ING, strutting. Kent.

BUMBEY, a quagmire, from stagnant water, dung, &c. such as is often seen in a farm-yard. Norf. and Suff.

BUMMELL, or BUMBLE-KITE, a bramble or blackberry. Cumb. So called also in Hampshire; perhaps a corruption of bramble kates. BUNGERSOME, clumsy. Berks.