BRIGLIADORO 
 
 
birth of the child a secret from a man so reason- 
able and compassionate as Allworthy.-Encyc. 
Brit. Art. "Fielding." 
  Brid'get (Mrs.), in Sterne's novel called 
The Life and Opinions of Tristramn Shandy, 
Gent. (1759). 
  Bridget (Mother), aunt of Catherine Sey- 
ton, and abbess of St. Catherine.-Sir W. 
Scott, The Abbot (time, Elizabeth). 
 
  Bridget (May), the milkwoman at Falk- 
land Castle.-Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of 
Perth (time, Henry IV.). 
 
  Bridge'ward (Peter), the bridgekeeper 
of Kennaquhair (" I know not where ").- 
Sir W. Scott, The Abbot (time, Elizabeth). 
 
  Bridgeward (Peter), warder of the bridge 
near St. Mary's Convent. He refuses a 
passage to father Philip, who is carrying 
off the Bible of lady Alice.-Sir W. Scott, 
The Monastery (time, Elizabeth). 
 
  Bridle. John Gower says that Rosi- 
phele princess of Armenia, insensible to 
love, saw in a vision a troop of ladies 
splendidly mounted, but one of them rode 
a wretched steed, wretchedly accoutred 
except as to the bridle. On asking the 
reason, the princess was informed that she 
was disgraced thus because of her cruelty 
to her lovers, but that the splendid bridle 
had been recently given, because the obdu- 
rate girl had for the last month shown 
symptoms of true love.    Moral-Hence 
let ladies warning take- 
      Of love that they be not idle, 
      And bid them think of my bridle. 
  Confessio Amantis (" Episode of Rosiphele," 
1325-1402). 
 
  Bridlegoose (Judge), a judge who do- 
cided the causes brought before him, not 
by weighing the merits of the case, but by 
 
 
the more simple process of throwing dice. 
Rabelais, Pantag'ruel, iii. 39 (1545.) 
 
  Bri'dlesly (Joe), a horse-dealer at Liver- 
pool, of whom Julian Peveril buys a horse. 
-Sir W. Scott, Peveril of the Peak (time, 
Charles II.). 
 
  Brid'oison [Bree.dwoy.zeng'], a stupid 
judge in the Mariage de Fiqaro, a comedy 
in French, by Beaumarchais (1784). 
 
  Bridoon (Corporal), in lieutenant Nose- 
bag's regiment.-Sir W. Scott, Waverley 
(time, George II.). 
 
  Brien'nius (Nicephorus), the Coesar of 
the Grecian empire, and husband of Anna 
Comne'na (daughter of Alexius Comnenus, 
emperor of Greece).-Sir W. Scott, Count 
Robert of Paris (time, Rufus). 
 
  Brigado're (4 syl.), sir Guyon's horse. 
The word means "Golden bridle."-Spen- 
ser, Fai'ry Queen, v. 3 (1596). 
 
  Brigan'tes (3 syl.), called by Drayton 
Brig'ants, the people of Yorkshire, Lan- 
cashire, Westmoreland, Cumberland, and 
Durham. 
Where in the Britons' rule of yore the Brigants 
    swayed, 
The powerful English established... Northum- 
    berland [Northumbria]. 
           Drayton, Polyolbion, xvi. (1613). 
 
  Briggs, one of the ten young gentlemen 
in the school of Dr. Blimber when Paul 
Dombey was a pupil there. Briggs was 
nicknamed the "Stoney," because his 
brains were petrified by the constant drop- 
ping of wisdom upon them.-C. Dickens, 
Dombey and Son (1846). 
 
  Brigliadoro [Bril'.ye.dor'.ro], Orlando's 
steed. The word means "Gold bridle."- 
Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516). 
 
 
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