Brace.  The Brace tavern; a room in the S.E. corner of the
  King’s Bench, where, for the convenience of prisoners
  residing thereabouts, beer purchased at the tap-house was
  retailed at a halfpenny per pot advance.  It was kept by
  two brothers of the name of Partridge, and thence called
  the Brace.

Bracket-faced. Ugly, hard-featured.

BRAGGET.  Mead and ale sweetened with honey.

BRAGGADOCIA. vain-glorious fellow, a boaster.

Brains.  If you had as much brains as guts, what a clever
  fellow you would be! a saying to a stupid fat fellow.  To
  have some guts in his brains; to know something.

Bran-faced. Freckled.  He was christened by a baker,
  he carries the bran in his face.

Brandy-faced. Red-faced, as if from drinking brandy.

Brandy.  Brandy is Latin for a goose; a memento to
  prevent the animal from rising in the stomach by a
  glass of the good creature.

Brat.  A child or infant.

Bray.  A vicar of Bray; one who frequently changes his
  principles, always siding with the strongest party:  an
  allusion to a vicar of Bray, in Berkshire, commemorated
  in a well-known ballad for the pliability of his conscience.

Brazen-faced. Bold-faced, shameless, impudent.

Bread and butter fashion.  One slice upon the
  other.  John and his maid were caught lying bread and
  butter fashion.—­To quarrel with one’s bread and butter;
  to act contrary to one’s interest.  To know on which
  side one’s bread is buttered; to know one’s interest, or
  what is best for one.  It is no bread and butter of mine;
  I have no business with it; or rather, I won’t intermeddle,
  because I shall get nothing by it.

Break-teeth words.  Hard words, difficult to pronounce.

Breaking shins.  Borrowing money; perhaps from the
  figurative operation being, like the real one, extremely
  disagreeable to the patient.

Bread.  Employment.  Out of bread; out of employment. 
  In bad bread; in a disagreeable scrape, or situation.

Bread basket.  The stomach; a term used by boxers. 
  I took him a punch in his bread basket; i.e.  I gave him
  a blow in the stomach.

Breast fleet.  He or she belongs to the breast fleet; i.e. is
  a Roman catholic; an appellation derived from their custom
  of beating their breasts in the confession of their sins.

BREECHED. Money in the pocket:  the swell is well
  breeched, let’s draw him; the gentleman has plenty of
  money in his pocket, let us rob him.

Breeches.  To wear the breeches; a woman who governs
  her husband is said to wear the breeches.