BRIMBALE, the brake or handle of a ship's pump.

BRION, the fore-foot, placed at the extremity of the keel forward.

BRIS, a duty formerly paid to the lord of the manor, by those who suffered shipwreck thereon. This unjust exaction is now totally abolished. See DEBRIS.

BRISANT, or BRISANS, a shelf or ridge of rocks near the surface of the water, and distinguished by the breakers that burst over it; it is also applied to the breakers themselves.

BRISE, a fresh gale or breeze; also the trade-winds, or sea-breezes between the tropics.

BRISE carabinée, a violent wind or squall.

BRISER, to split, or dash forcibly against a rock or shelf; expressed of a ship when she is stranded.

BRISES, the land-winds which blow during the night in the West-Indies, &c.

BROCHETER, to give the scantlings of the several pieces of a ship's frame.

BROU, the bark of the cocoa, of which the Indians form the cordage used in their shipping.

BRUINE, small drizzling rain.

BRULOT, a fire-ship.

BRUME, a mist or fog at sea.

Tems EMBRUMÉ, or couvert de brouillard, thick misty weather.

BUCENTAURE, a sort of galley used by the state of Venice, when the doge performs the annual ceremony of espousing the sea.

BUCHE, a herring-buss, or small fly-boat used in the herring-fishery.

BULLETIN, a certificate given to sea officers and tailors, when they are registered in a port, to testify their qualities, age, privileges, and time of service.

BURINS. See TAPPES.

BUTIN, the pillage or plunder of a prize taken from an enemy.

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