Chapter Bowie Knife to Brag of B by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Brace The Brace Tavern, southeast corner of King's Bench; originally kept by two brothers named Partridge, i.e. a brace of birds.

Brace of Shakes In a brace of shakes. Very soon. (See Shakes.) Similar phrases are: “In the twinkling of an eye.” (See Eye.) “In the twinkling of a bed-post.” (See Bed-Post .)

Bradamant or Bradamante. Sister of Rinaldo, in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. She is represented as a most wonderful Christian Amazon, possessed of an irresistible spear, which unhorsed every knight that it touched. The same character appears in the Orlando Innamorato of Bojardo.

Bradshaw's Guide was started in 1839 by George Bradshaw, printer, in Manchester. The Monthly Guide was first issued in December, 1841, and consisted of thirty-two pages, giving tables of forty-three lines of English railway.

Bradwardine (Rose ). The daughter of Baron Bradwardine, and the heroine of Scott's Waverley. She is in love with young Waverley, and ultimately marries him.

Brag A game at cards: so called because the players brag of their cards to induce the company to make bets. The principal sport of the game is occasioned by any player bragging that he holds a better hand than the rest of the party, which is declared by saying “I brag,” and staking a sum of money on the issue. (Hoyle.)
   Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better. Talking is all very well, but doing is far better.
   Jack Brag. A vulgar, pretentious braggart, who gets into aristocratic society, where his vulgarity stands out in strong relief. The character is in Theodore Hook's novel of the same name.

“He was a sort of literary Jack Brag.”- T. H. Burton.