BRICE, ST., bishop of Tours in the beginning of the 5th century, and disciple of St. Martin.  Festival, Nov. 19.

BRICE’S, ST., a day in 1002 on which a desperate attempt was made to massacre all the Danes in England and stamp them wholly out, an attempt which was avenged by the Danish king, Sweyn.

BRICK, JEFFERSON, an American politician in “Martin Chuzzlewit.”

BRIDE OF THE SEA, Venice, so called from a ceremony in which her espousals were celebrated by the Doge casting a ring into the Adriatic.

BRIDEWELL, a house of correction in Blackfriars, London, so called from St. Bridget’s well, near it.

BRIDGE OF ALLAN, a village on Allan water, 3 m.  N. of Stirling, with a mild climate and mineral waters.

BRIDGE OF SIGHS, a covered way in Venice leading from the Ducal Palace to the State prison, and over which culprits under capital sentence were transported to their doom, whence the name.

BRIDGENORTH, MAJOR RALPH, a Roundhead in “Peveril of the Peak.”

BRIDGEPORT (48), a thriving manufacturing town and seaport of Connecticut, U.S., 58 m.  NE. from New York.

BRIDGET, MRS., a character in “Tristram Shandy.”

BRIDGET, ST., an Irish saint, born at Dundalk; entered a monastery at 14; founded monasteries; takes rank in Ireland with St. Patrick and St. Columba.  Festival, Feb. 1 (453-523).  Also the name of a Swedish saint in the 14th century; founded a new Order, and 72 monasteries of the Order.

BRIDGETON, a manufacturing town in New Jersey, 38 m.  S. of Philadelphia.

BRIDGETOWN (21), capital of Barbadoes, seat of the government, the bishop, a college, &c.; it has suffered frequently from hurricane and fever.

BRIDGEWATER, FRANCIS EGERTON, 3RD DUKE OF, celebrated for his self-sacrificing devotion to the improvement and extension of canal navigation in England, embarking in it all his wealth, in which he was aided by the skill of Brindley; he did not take part in politics, though he was a supporter of Pitt; died unmarried (1736-1803).

BRIDGEWATER, FRANCIS HENRY EGERTON, 8TH EARL OF, educated for the Church, bequeathed L8000 for the best work on natural theology, which his trustees expended in the production of eight works by different eminent men, called “Bridgewater Treatises,” all to be found in Bohn’s Scientific Library (1758-1829).

BRIDGMAN, LAURA, a deaf, dumb, and blind child, born in New Hampshire, U.S.; noted for the surprising development of intellectual faculty notwithstanding these drawbacks; Dickens gives an account of her in his “American Notes” (1829-1889).

BRIDGWATER, a seaport town in Somersetshire, 29 m.  SW. of Bristol.

BRIDLEGOOSE, JUDGE, a judge in Rabelais’ “Pantagruel,” who decided cases by the throw of dice.

BRIDLINGTON, a watering-place in Yorkshire, 6 m.  SW. of Flamborough Head, with a chalybeate spring.

BRIDPORT, VISCOUNT, a British admiral, distinguished in several engagements (1797-1814).