Brize. To press heavily on, or against, to crush down (S.). A loaded waggon 'brizes down' the road.—N. & S.W.
Broad-board. See Bread-board.
Broke-bellied. Ruptured.—N.W.
Brook-Sparrow. Salicaria phragmitis, the Sedge Warbler; from one of its commonest notes resembling that of a sparrow (Great Estate, ch. vii; Wild Life, ch. iii).—N.W.
'At intervals [in his song] he intersperses a chirp, exactly the same as that of the sparrow, a chirp with a tang in it. Strike a piece of metal, and besides the noise of the blow, there is a second note, or tang. The sparrow's chirp has such a note sometimes, and the sedge-bird brings it in—tang, tang, tang. This sound has given him his country name of brook-sparrow.'—Jefferies, A London Trout.
Brow. (1) adj. Brittle (A.B.C.H.Wr.); easily broken. Vrow at Clyffe Pypard. Also Frow.—N.W. *(2) n. A fragment (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 109).—N.W. (Cherhill.)
Brown. 'A brown day,' a gloomy day (H.Wr.).—N.W.
Bruckle. (Generally with off or away.) v. To crumble away, as some kinds of stone when exposed to the weather (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 109); to break off easily, as the dead leaves on a dry branch of fir. Compare brickle=brittle (Wisdom, xv. 13), A.S. brucol=apt to break.—N.W.
Bruckley. adj. Brittle, crumbly, friable, not coherent (S.).—N. & S.W.
Brush. 'The brush of a tree,' its branches or head.—N.W.