brawl

A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

• Three Ciuell brawles bred of an airie word, / By the old Capulet and Mountague, / Haue thrice diſturbd the quiet of our ſtreets.
• Robert Carlyle appears as Begbie, who starts brawls with almost anyone who crosses his path; [...]

To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.intransitive

• I doe the wrong, and firſt began to braule / The ſecret miſchiefes that I ſet abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: [...]
• [U]pon every trifle, the vitiated faculties of thy ſoul are inflamed with immoderate and moſt irregular paſſion, ſo that thou often brawleſt, and art made thereby to roar like a wild bull caught in a thicket: [...]

To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.intransitive

• Say beggar, why brawlest þou? go boune þe to þe barre.
• How now ſir Iohn, what are you brawling here? / Doth this become your place, your time, and buſineſſe?

Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise.intransitive

• To day my Lord of Amiens, and my ſelfe, / Did ſteale behinde him as he lay along / Vnder an oake, whoſe anticke roote peepes out / Vpon the brooke that brawles along this wood, [...]
• ―When low-hung clouds each ſtar of ſummer hide, / And fireleſs are the valleys far and wide, / Where the brook brawls along the painful road, / Dark with bat haunted aſhes ſtretching broad, [...]

To pour abuse on; to scold.transitive

To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.intransitiveobsolete

A type of dance move or step.obsolete

Alternative form of branle (“dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance”).alt-ofalternativehistorical

• Boy. Maiſter, will you win your loue with a french braule? / Brag[gart]. How meaneſt thou? brawling in French. / Boy. No my complet Maiſter, but to Iigge off a tune at the tongues ende, canarie to it with your feete, humour it with turning