Brayeul: m. The parts, or feathers, about a hawkes fundament, called by our Faulconers the brayle in a short-wingd, and, the pannell in a long-wingd, hauke.
Breant. The bird called, a Siskin.
Brebiail: m. Sheepe; Ewes.
Brebiaille: f. The same.
Brebiette: f. A little sheepe, or ewe. Petite brebiette tousiours semble ieunette: Pro. The little sheepe seemes euer yong.
Brebis: f. A sheepe; properly, an ewe. Brebis de rebut. An old, or diseased sheepe, thats not worth keeping; wee call such a one, a drape, or culling. Courage de brebis (le nez en terre, followes) To it hearts; courage my Lads; (an irronicall, or sportfull phrase of encouragement.) Brebis contées mange bien le loup: Pro. The wolfe eats counted, as well as vncounted, sheepe; (appliable vnto a beastly fellow, that respects nothing but the glutting of his filthy appetite.) Brebis trop apprivoisée de trop d'agneaux est tettée: Prov. An ouer-kind man, or woman get more followers, than it stands with his ease, or her honestie to keepe. Ou brebis sont laine est: Prov. Where sheepe are wooll is. Depuis que la brebis est vieille le loup la mange bien: Prov. A wolfe can eat a sheepe though shee bee old. Deux loups mangent bien vne brebis: Prov. Two wolues deuour one sheepe with ease. En la peau de brebis ce que tu veux y escris: Pro. One may write what he will in a sheepes skin; (sheepe endure any thing.) Entre Beaucaire, & Tarascon ne paist ne brebis, ne mouton: Prov. Looke Tarascon. Il n'est pas tousiours saison de brebis tondre: Pro. sheepe-sheering is not euer in season; silly people must haue some time allowed them to thriue in; so will their fleeces, at length, be worth clipping. Pendant que les chiens s'entregrondent le loup devore la brebis: Prov. Church-mens contention is the diuels haruest. Qui se fait brebis le loup le mange: Prov. Those that will needs be sheepe the wolfe deuours; hee that like a sheepe carries himselfe, like a sheepe shall be fleeced, foulded, and fed on. Tandis que la loup muse la brebis entre au bois: Prov. While the wolfe studies the sheepe escapes; while the cruell consult, the innocent ouerslip them; (hereby is also noted th' inconueniencie of an opportunitie neglected; and their slownesse, or dulnesse taxed, who go to councell when they should fall to action.)
Breborions: m. Old dunsicall bookes; also, the foolish charmes, or superstitious prayers, vsed by old, and simple women, against the tooth-ache, &c; any such thred-*bare, and mustie, rags of blind deuotion.
Breche: f. A bracke, or breach in a wall, &c.
Breché: m. ée: f. Breached; full of brackes, full of breaches; or hauing a breach made in it.
Brechedent: m. A tooth-gaper; one that wanteth diuers teeth; or, as Breschedent. Brechet: m. The brisket.
Brecheure d'une riviere. A breach in a riuer.
Bredaille: f. A great paunch, or belly: ¶Pic. Bredailler: m. A gorbelly, gorrell, gulch, fatguts.
Brediner. as Bredouiller.
Bredouillard: m. arde: f. Faultering, gabling, maffe-*
*ling, imperfectly speaking.
Bredouille: f. A lurch at cards, or tables. Estre en bredouille. To be tipled, or tipsie. Ma petite bredouille. My prettie rogue, my little knaue (a tearme vsed much by the nurses of France.) Bredouillement: m. A faultering, or maffling; an ill-fauoured speaking, imperfect pronounciation.
Bredouiller. To maffle, or faulter; to speake, or pronounce imperfectly.
Bref: m. as Brevet; A breefe, note, short writing; also, as Brief; a writ, &c. Droict de Brefs. Certaine pecuniarie duties paid vnto the Kings Receiuers, or farmors in the Ports of Brittaine, euer since the yere 1566, when they were granted by a prouisionall Arrest of the Parliament there, in regard (as it seemes) of the Kings writs, licencing the passage of vessels out of those Ports; hence; Bref d'année. Is for vessels of the burthen of fiue Tunnes and vnder; which pay vij. s. vj. d. Tour. Bref de conduicte & de victuailles. Is giuen for vessels that be of burthen from nine to nineteene Tunnes; These pay 50. s. Tour. Bref de victuailles. Is for vessels that be from fiue to nine Tunnes burthen; and these yeeld 17. s. 6. d. Tour. Tous briefs. Must be had for such vessels that be of 19 Tunnes, or vpwards; and for them, 110. s. paid.
Bref. See Brief; Short, &c.
Brefve: f. Looke Breve. Bregmatis: Os bregmatis. (Latine words vsed much by French Anatomists: ) Looke Os. Brehaigne: f. A barren woman, or female; or, (Adiectiuely) barren, sterill.
Brei: m. as Bret (The fowlers engine.)
Breil de forest. A thicke growne wood, or corner of a forrest, wherein great wild beasts vse to lurke.
Breits. as Bray. Brelafé. Looke Balafré. Brelan: m. A house of gaming, tipling, or of any such disorder; Looke Berlan. Brelandier: m. An ordinarie haunter of gaming, or tipling houses; also, the master, or keeper of such an vngodly house.
Brelengue. as Brelingue. Brelingue: f. A peece of coyne worth about eight pence sterling.
Breller. To batfowle; to catch birds by batfowling; also, to twinkle, or glitter.
Brelles. Ciues, chiues; or, ciuet, and sweth.
Breluë. Il a la breluë. His eyes are dazled; See Berlue. Bremant. Il n'a enfant ne bremant. Hee hath nor child, nor chicke to care for; he liues without any manner of charge.
Bremer. as Bramer. Bremme: f. as Brame; A Breame.
Bren: m. A turd, mans dung, excrement, ordure; Looke Bran. Brenasserie: f. Scuruie shitten sturre, or stuffe.
Breneux: m. euse: f. Beshitten, all-to-berayed; full of turd, filth, ordure.
Bresche. The name of a verie hard, and sundrie coloured, marble.
Bresché: m. ée: f. as Breché.
Breschedent. An irronicall allusion to President; or, as Brechedent.
Bresil: m. The wood Brasill; also, beefe long salted, and hung by the fire till it become red; Martlemas beefe.
