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Breech Loading

made to be loaded at the breech. Breech-loading gun or cannon, a gun or cannon made to be loaded at the breech instead of the muzzle.

Breech Pin

in firearms, a plug screwed into the rear end of a barrel, forming the bottom of the charge chamber. Otherwise called a breech plug or breech screw.

Breech Screw

in firearms, the plug which closes the rear end of the bore of a firearm barrel. The parts are known as the plug, the face, the tenon, the tang, and the tangscrew hole.

Brenner

a mountain in the Tyrolese Alps between Innsbruck and Sterzing; height, 6,777 feet. The road from Germany to Italy, traversing this mountain, reaches the elevation of 4,658 feet, and is one of the lowest roads practicable for carriages over the main chain of the Alps. A railway through this route was opened in 1867.

Brenta

a river in north Italy, falling, after a winding course of 112 miles, into the Adriatic. Formerly its embouchure was at Fusina, opposite Venice; but a new course was made for it.

Bretten

a town of Baden, Germany, the birthplace of Melanchthon, 16 miles E. N. E. of Karlsruhe by rail. The house in which the Reformer was born belongs now to a foundation bearing his name for the support of poor students, established in 1861. A monument was erected in 1867.

Bretts and Scots

THE LAWS OF THE (Latin, Leges inter Brettos et Scotos), the name given in the 13th century to a code of laws in use among the Celtic tribes in Scotland.

BREVIARY

Breve

in music, a note or character of time, equal to two semibreves or four minims. It was formerly square in shape, but is now oval. It is the longest note in music.

Brevipennes

the name given by Cuvier to a family of birds, which he classes under grallæ, from the typical families of which, ho in having wings so short as to prevent them flying. Example, the ostrich and its allies. however, they differ

Briareus

a famous giant, son of Cœlus and Terra, who had 100 hands and 50 heads, and was called by men Ægeon, and only by the gods Briareus.

He assisted the giants in their war against the gods, and, according to the accounts of some, was thrown under Mt.

Ætna.

Brick

a kind of artificial stone, made of clay, molded, dried in the sun brick, with openings for ventilation; stocks, a name given to the best class of bricks, and also locally to peculiar varieties, as gray stocks, red stocks, etc.; pressed brick another name for

Bride

ST. See BRIDGET. $37,208,000