Bracket – Braila
Bracket
an ornamental projection from a wall, used for the purpose of supporting a statue, bust, or the like.
The term bracket is also employed in joinery, etc., to designate supports, in the form of a bent knee, of shelves, galleries, etc. Bracket is also generally applied to such gaslights as project from the wall.
Bract
a leaf growing upon the flower stalk. Those which occupy this situation have, as a rule a different size, form, and appearance from the ordinary leaves. The involucre in composite plants, the great spathe in aracex, the paleæ of grasses, the scales of catkins, etc., are all bracts.
Bracton
HENRY DE, an English ecclesiastic and jurist, of whom but little certain is known save that he was a "justice itinerant," in 1264 became Archdeacon of Barnstaple and Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral, and died in 1268. He is memorable as one of the earliest writers on English law.
Bradstreet
ANNE, the earliest American poet, born in Northampton, England, in 1612. She was a daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. In 1630 she emigrated to America with her husband, Simon Bradstreet, Governor of Massachusetts. Her poems were published as "The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America." They are quaint and literal in style. She She died Sept. 16, 1672.
Braemar
a Highland district_in the S. W. corner of Aberdeenshire. It contains part of the Grampian range with the heights of Ben Macdhui, Cairntoul, Lochnagar, etc. The district has some fine scenery, valleys and hillsides covered with birch and fir.
Braganza
or BRAGANÇA, a town of Portugal, capital of the former prov- ince of Tras-os-montes, with a castle, the ancient seat of the Dukes of Bra- ganza, from whom the present reigning ince of Tras-os-montes, with a c the ancient seat of the Dukes of Brafamily of Portugal are descended. Pop. about 3,500.
Braham
JOHN (bra'am), an English tenor singer, of Jewish extraction, born in London, in 1774. He appeared accepted an invitation of the Emperor Rudolf II.-who conferred on him a to have been erected for him; but he pension-to Benatek, a few miles from died at Prague on Oct. 24, 1601.
Prague, where a new Uranienburg was
Brahman
BRAHMIN, BRAMIN, or BRACHMAN, one of the Aryan convast literature they have almost uniformly told monstrous myths in lieu of history. Nor do they care much for natural science.
Brahmana Beads
a name given in India to the corrugated seeds of elæocarpus, used by the Brahmans and others as necklaces.
Brahmani
a female Brahman; the wife of Brahman. Also written Brahminee. a BRAHMANISM BRAHMS
Braid
JAMES, a Scotch physician, born in Fife, in 1795, studied medicine at Edinburgh, and settled as a surgeon in Manchester. He is noted for his researches on animal magnetism, which he called hypnotism. He died March 25, 1860.
Braila
a town in Rumania, formerly a fortress, on the left bank of the Danube, which divides itself here into a number of arms, one of them forming the harbor of the town. The export of grain and the sturgeon fisheries are among the principal industries. Pop. about 61,000.