Bragmarder. To draw, or imploy, his whineyard; to leacher.
Brague: f. A kind of Mortaise, or ioyning of peeces together. Bragues. Short (and close) linnen breeches worne next vnto the thighes.
Braguer. To flaunt, braue; brag, or iet it.
Braguerie: f. Wanton tricking, lasciuious brauerie, or pranking; also, flaunting; bragging, swaggering. Braguesques: f. Large venetians hauing codpeeces, and gathered, or full of stuffe, at the knees.
Braguette: f. A codpeece. Bonnet à quarre braguettes. A square, or foure-*cornered, cap.
Bragueur. as Bragard. Brahiers. as Brayers; Linnen breeches. Brailler. as Braire. To bray like an asse, &c. Il ne perdra point l'auoine à faute de brailler. He will not loose any commoditie for want of words.
Brain: m. The branch of a tree.
Braire: m. An Asse-like braying; a roaring, rude yelling, loud balling, vnmeasureable crying out.
Braire. To bray like an Asse; to bawle, yell, cry out loudly; rudely, vnmeasureably. Braire avecles asnes. To follow the fashion, how rude soeuer it be.
Braise: f. A burning coale; quicke fire of coales; or hot imbers; also, a kind of inflamed swelling, full of rednesse. Saulter de la poile, & feietter dedans les braises. From ill to worse; from the frying-pan into the fire.
Braisier: m. A liue-coale; or, burning coales.
Braisillonner. To rost, or seeth vpon quicke coales, or imbers; or, as Brasilloner. Braisiner. as Bramer; to roare. Braisset. as Graisset; the greene toad. Brame: f. A Breame. Brame de mer. The sea Breame (called so at Paris, where it is ordinarie) also, the Guilt-head, or Golden-nie (and diuers other fishes of that kind are also called so by the inhabitants of the sea coasts.)
Bramé: m. ée: f. Brayed, roared, yelled, cried out with a harsh voice.
Bramer. To bray, roare, yell, or crie out with a harsh voice.
Bran: m. The branne of wheat; also, as Bren; a turd. Bran de Iudas. Freckles in the face. Faire de l' Asne pour avoir du bran. To play the foole, or make an asse of himselfe, in hope of gaine, or victuals. Farine du Diable n'est que bran: Prov. Looke Farine. Tousiours truye songe bran: Pro. The filthie glutton still dreames of his belly. Truye aime mieux bran que Roses: Prov. The Sow loues draffe better than delicacies.
Bran. bœuf bran. A kind of vnreclaimeable wild Oxe, in Provence, & Languedoc. Branc d'acier: m. A cuttleasse, or courtelax.
Brancal: m. The sides of a wagon, the shafts of a litter; the two beames, or poles, whose fore-part makes the Thill; also, a horse-litter, or close litter; and (generally) any such thing that hath armes, or out-bearing side-*beames, and is to be carried by, or betweene, two; also, as Brancar.
Brancar. as Brancal; also, a branch of Corrall; also, the crosse-barre of a hilt.
Brancas: m. as Brancal. Brance. Bearded red wheat.
Branchage: m. Branchinesse; thicknes, or store of branches; also, branches, boughes; also, Linage; or the branch of a Pettigree, &c; as Branche. Branchages. as Branchieres. Branche: f. The branch, or bough of a tree; also, the gill of a fish; also, the cheeke of a bit; also, a collaterall degree, or side, of kinred; Linage; or, a branch, or line, of a Pettigree. Branche d'augiues. Looke Augive. Branche hircine; as, Branche vrsine. Brank-ursin, Beares-foot, Beares-claw, Beares-breech (an hearbe.) Droict de branche de Cyprés. Looke Cyprés. Il se tient seulement à l'estoe sans s'amuser aux branches. He holds him onely to the substance, without respecting circumstances. Vole bas de peur des branches. Flie low, or be stopt by the branches; beare a low saile, or bee run vnder water; a middle, or moderate course is little subiect vnto enuious crossings.
Brancheage: m. as Branchage. Brancher. To sit vpon a branch; to light vpon a bough; to take a tree; to take stand in a tree, as a hauke; to pearch, as a phesant. Brancher vn larron. To twitch a theefe vp at a bough, to hang him vp at a tree. Tant que tige faict souche elle ne branche iamais. As long as there are any heires of an elder Prince of the bloud, the younger cannot inherit the crowne.
Branchet. Espervier branchet. A brancher, or young hauke, newly come out of the neast.
Branchette: f. A little branch.
Branchier: m. ere: f. Haunting, or liuing among, branches; pearching, or sitting, on boughes; also, of, or belonging to, a branch, or bough. Espervier branchier. A brancher, or young hauke, newly come of the neast.
Branchiere: f. A Passage-toll, or through-toll; so called, because the little log thats a signe therof (as in Billette) hangs on the branch of some tree or other. Branchieres. The out-places, or parts of the high way, wherein the said logs, or billets, haue beene, a long time, hung vp.
Branchillon. A little branch.
Branchu: m. uë: f. Branchie, branched, full of branches, or boughes.
Branchuë: f. A kind of small red Cray-fish, which bred without a shell of it own, seises on some other, and therein continues, getting at length a resemblance of the fish it belonged vnto.
Branchure: f. A branch.
Brand. as Branc. Brandes: f. Heathie grounds.
Brandif: m. iue: f. Brandishing, shaking, flourishing; lustie, liuely, stirring. Il mangea vn gigot de mouton tout brandif, viz. wholly, or all whole.
Brandillé: m. ée: f. Brandled, tottered, wagged, shaken, swong, swagged; also, glistened, or flashed.
Brandillement: m. A swinging, wagging, swagging, shaking, tottering vp and downe; also, a glistening, or flashing.
Brandiller. To brandle, wag, shake, swing, totter; also, to glisten, or flash.
Brandilloir: m. A swing.
Brandilloire: f. The same.