consented "to be his love, and to take him for her lord."--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iii. (1590). She charmed at once and tamed the heart, Incomparable Britomart. Sir W. Scott. BRITON _(Colonel)_, a Scotch officer, who sees donna Isabella jump from a window in order to escape from a marriage she dislikes. The colonel catches her, and takes her to the house of donna Violante, her friend. Here he calls upon her, but don Felix, the lover of Violante, supposing Violante to be the object of his visits, becomes jealous, till at the end the mystery is cleared up, and a double marriage is the result.--Mrs. Centlivre, _The Wonder_ (1714). BROB'DINGNAG, a country of enormous giants, to whom Gulliver was a tiny dwarf. They were as tall "as an ordinary church steeple," and all their surroundings were in proportion. Yon high church steeple, yon gawky stag. Your husband must come from Brobdingnag. Kane O'Hara, _Midas_. BROCK _(Adam)_, in _Charles XII._, an historical drama by J. E. Planché. BROKEN-GIRTH-FLOW (_Laird of_), one of the Jacobite conspirators in _The Black Dwarf_, a novel by sir W. Scott (time, Anne). BROKER OF THE EMPIRE (_The_). Dari´us, son of Hystaspês, was so called by the Persians from his great care of the financial condition of his empire. BRO´MIA, wife of Sosia (slave of Amphitryon), in the service of Alcme´na. A nagging termagant, who keeps her husband in petticoat subjection. She is not one of the characters in Molière's comedy of _Amphitryon_.--Dryden, _Amphitryon_ (1690). BROMTON'S CHRONICLE (time, Edward III.), that is, "The Chronicle of John Bromton" printed among the _Decem Scriptores_, under the titles of "Chronicon Johannis Bromton," and "Joralanensis Historia a Johanne Bromton," abbot of Jerevaux, in Yorkshire. It commences with the conversion of the Saxons by St. Augustin, and closes with the death of Richard I. in 1199. Selden has proved that the chronicle was not _written_ by Bromton, but was merely brought to the abbey while he was abbot. BRON´TES (2 _syl._), one of the Cyclops, hence a blacksmith generally. Called Bronteus (2 _syl._), by Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, iv. 5 (1596). Not with such weight, to frame the forky brand, The ponderous hammer falls from Brontês' hand. _Jerusalem Delivered_, xx. (Hool's translation). BRONZELY (2 _syl._), a mere rake, whose vanity was to be thought "a general seducer."--Mrs. Inchbald, _Wives as they Were, and Maids as they Are_ (1797). BRON´ZOMARTE (3 _syl._), the sorrel steed of sir Launcelot Greaves. The word means a "mettlesome sorrel."--Smollett, _Sir Launcelot Greaves_ (1756). BROOK (_Master_), the name assumed by Ford when sir John Falstaff makes love to his wife. Sir John, not knowing him, confides to him every item of his amour, and tells him how cleverly he has duped Ford by being carried out in a buck-basket before his very face.--Shakespeare, _Merry Wives of Windsor_ (1601). BROOKE (_Dorothea_), calm, queenly heroine of _Middlemarch_, by George Eliot.