smaller; and if the other should reply in like manner _again_, the parties continue betting, each putting down a sum not less than that last ventured by his adversary, till one or other of them, frightened, gives up the contest, by which the player holding out longest gains all the money wagered, including the second stake; or either party may lay down a stake, saying, _Let me see you_, or _I’ll see it_, in which case both the hands are to be shown, and the strongest wins. When more than one person wishes to answer the first bragger, the eldest has the preference. The third stake is obtained by the eldest player, who may hold, either from the cards dealt, or obtain by drawing in addition from the stock, thirty-one, or the highest number under that; each ace, king, queen, and knave being calculated as ten, and the rest according to their pips; any one drawing above thirty-one loses of course. The player who is so fortunate as to gain all the three stakes in one deal, is, strictly speaking, entitled to three more from each of his antagonists, though in some companies this is declined, as savouring too much of gambling.—_Hoyle._ BRAKE, _s._ Fern, brambles. A carriage for training horses. BRAKY, _a._ Thorny, prickly, rough. BRAMBLE, _s._ Blackberry-bush, dewberry-bush, raspberry-bush; any rough prickly shrub. BRAMBLING, _s._ A bird, called also the mountain chaffinch. A small worm. BRAN, _s._ The husks of corn ground. BRANCH, _s._ The shoot of a tree from one of the main boughs; any distinct article; any part that shoots out from the rest; a smaller river running into a larger. The offspring, the descendant; the antlers or shoots of a stag’s horn. BRANCH, _v._ To spread in branches, to spread into separate parts; to have horns shooting out. BRANCHER, _s._ One that shoots out into branches. In Falconry, a young hawk. A young rook. BRAND, _s._ A stick lighted, or fit to be lighted; a mark made by burning with a hot iron. BRANDLING, _s._ A particular worm. BRANDY, _s._ A strong liquor distilled from wine. BRANK, _s._ Buckwheat. BRASIL, or BRAZIL, _s._ An American dye-wood, commonly supposed to have been thus denominated, because first brought from Brasil. BRASS, s. A yellow metal made by mixing copper with lapis calaminaris; impudence. BRAWN, _s._ The fleshy or muscular part of the body; the arm, so called from its being muscular; bulk; muscular strength; the flesh of the boar; a boar. BRAWNER, _s. obs._ A boar killed for the table. BRAY, _v._ To pound, or grind small. To make a noise as an ass. BRAZE, _v._ To solder with brass. BREAD, _s._ Food made of ground corn; corn in general. BREAK, _v._ To part in two; to bruise by dashing, as waves upon a rock; to open and discharge matter. BREAKER, _s._ He that breaks dogs.