is generally used to detain a ship in any particular station, in order to wait the approach of some other that may be advancing towards her; or to retard her course occasionally near any port in the course of a voyage.

BRINGING-IN A HORSE, in the manege, the same as to say, keep down the nose of a horse that boars and tosses his nose in the wind: this is done by means of a bridle.

BRINING OF CORN, in husbandry, an operation performed on the wheat-feed, in order to prevent the smut. A liquor is to be prepared for this purpose, by putting 70 gallons of water into a tub (like a bath-tub used for brewing), and a corn-bushel of unslaked lime-water. This is to be well stirred till the whole is dissolved, and left to stand for 30 hours; after which it is to be drained off into another tub, in the manner practised for beer. In this way about a hogshead of strong lime-water will be obtained, to which must be added three pecks of salt. The wheat must be steeped in this pickle, by running it gently, and in small quantities, into a broad-bottomed basket of about 24 inches in diameter, and 20 inches deep, and stirring it. The light feed that floats must be strained off with a strainer, and must not be sown. When the basket has been drawn up, and drained of the pickle, the wheat will be fit for sowing in two hours after the brining.