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a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon. The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy. Prescott. There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity. South.

A gridiron. [Scot.]

To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Jamieson.

A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.

Good; fine. "A braw night." Sir W. Scott.

A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities. [Scot.]

lashing, brayed Horrible discord. MIlton. And varying notes the war pipes brayed. Sir W. Scott.

e in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. Prescott.

o live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott.

An ancient Irish or Scotch judge. Brehon laws, the ancient Irish laws, -- unwritten, like the common law of England. They were abolished by statute of Edward III.

Smooth; unwrinkled. [Scot.] Your bonnie brow was brent. Burns.

friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.

A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

A bridge. [Scot.] Burns.

Illustrious; glorious. In the brightest annals of a female reign. Cotton.

gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful. And night shall brighten into day. N. Cotton. And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere world be past. Goldsmith.

To rise or stand erect, like bristles. His hair did bristle upon his head. Sir W. Scott.

ragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite.

To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. [Scot. & North of Eng.]