brid, _pl._ briddes (A.S.) _a bird_ bringen (A.S.) _to bring_. _pret. s._ broughte, broghte. _part. past_, y-brought, broght, 235 brocage (A.N.) 33, 289, _a treaty by a broker or agent_. It is particularly applied to treaties of marriage, brought about in this way. In Chaucer's Romance of the Rose, l. 6971, Fals Semblant says,-- I entremete me of _brocages_. I maken pece, and mariages. So in the Miller's Tale (C.T. 3375), it is said of Absolon, He woweth hire by mene and by _brocage_, And swor he wolde ben hir owne page. That is, he wooed her by the agency of another person, whom he employed to persuade her to agree to his wishes. broches (A.N.) _brooches, jewels_. broches, 362, _matches_ (?) brocour (A.N.) 31, 32, 45, 84, _a seller, broker, maker of bargains_ broke (A.S.) _a brook_ brok, _pl._ brokkes (A.S.) 119, _an animal of the badger kind_ brol (A.S.) 55, 494, 495, _a child, brat_. Reliquiæ Antiquæ, ii, 177:-- Whan hi commith to the world, hi doth ham silf sum gode, Al bot the wrech _brol_ that is of Adamis blode. brood (A.S.) _broad_ brotel (A.S.) 153, _weak, brittle, unsteady_ +brothels (A.S.) 496, _wretches, men of bad life_. In the Coventry Mysteries (Ed. Halliwell, p. 308), the term is applied to the damned who suffer punishment in hell:-- In bras and in bronston the _brethellys_ be brent, That wene in this werd my wyl for to werke. In another play in the same collection, p. 217, it is applied to the woman taken in adultery:-- Com forthe, thou bysmare and _brothel_ bolde. brouke (A.S.) 209, _to enjoy, use, to brook_ brugg, _pl._ brugges (A.S.) _a bridge_ bruneste (A.S.) _brownest_ buggen, bugge (A.S.) 412, _to buy_. _pres. pl._ biggen. _pret._ boughte. _part. act._ buggynge, 410 bummen (A.S. ?) 90, _to taste_ (?) burde (A.S.) 44, 404, _a maiden, damsel, lady_ burdoun (A.N.) 108, _a staff_ burel (A.N.) _a kind of coarse brown woollen cloth_. burel clerkes, 191. Tyrwhit (Glos. to Chaucer) thinks this means _lay clerks_. In the Canterbury Tales, l. 7453, the friar says:-- And more we se of Goddis secré thinges, Than _borel folk_, although that thay ben kinges, We lyve in povert and in abstinence, And _borel folk_ in riches and dispence. The hoste says (l. 15440)-- Religioun hath take up al the corn Of tredyng, and we _burel men_ ben schrympes. _Borel folk_ and _borel men_ evidently mean _laymen_ burgage (A.N.) 48, _lands or tenements in towns, held by a particular tenure_ burgeise (A.S.) _burgess, inhabitant of a borough_ burghe (A.S.) 135, _burgh, town_ burghe (A.S.) _castrated_, applied to a hog. burghe swyn, 34, _a barrow hog_ burjonen (A.N.) 299, _to bud, or spring_ burn (A.S.) _pl._ burnes, _a man_. buyrn, 341, 346 +burwgh (A.S.) 458, _a castle, palace, or large edifice_ busk, _pl._ buskes (A.S.) 223, _a bush_ busken (A.S.) 44, 167, _to busk, go, to array, prepare_ buxom (A.S.) _obedient_. buxomnesse, _obedience_ C. K. caas (A.N.) _case_