boutonnière (Fr.), a flower made up for the buttonhole, &c.

bowery (Dut.), a farm, plantation.

brachium civile (L.), the civil arm;—brachium seculare, the secular arm.

brava! (It.), well done!

brevet d'invention (Fr.), a patent.

breveté (Fr.), patented.

brevi manu (L.), with a short hand, off-hand.

brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio (L.), in labouring to be brief I become obscure.

brial (Sp.), a rich skirt.

bride (Fr.), the string of a woman's bonnet.