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2. To menace, to make a threatening appearance.

_Douglas._

3. To shake, applied to the mind; to confound, to throw into disorder; used actively.

_G.o.dscroft._

Fr. _branl-er_, to shake; Su. G. _brang-as_, c.u.m labore perrumpere velle.

BRANGILL, _s._ A kind of dance.

_Douglas._

Fr. _branle_, ”a brawle, or daunce, wherein many men and women move all together;” Cotgr.

BRANIT, _part. pa._ Brawned; a term formed from E. _brawn_, the fleshy or musculous part of the body.

_Dunbar._

_To_ BRANK, _v. a._

1. To bridle, to restrain.

_G.o.dly Sangs._

2. _v. n._ To raise and toss the head, as spurning the bridle; applied to horses.

_Douglas._

3. To bridle up one's self.

_Maitland Poems._

4. To prance, to caper.

_Ramsay._

Teut. _brank-en_ and _p.r.o.ncken_, both signify, ostentare se, dare se spectandum; Germ. _prang-en_, id.; Su. G. _prunk-a_, superbire. Wachter gives _prang-en_, as also signifying, premere, coarctare.

BRANKEN, _part. pr._ Gay, lively, S. A.

_J. Nicol._

BRANKS, _s. pl._