_Burns._
BRAZE, _s._ A roach.
V. ~Braise~.
BRAZARS, _s. pl._ Armour for the arms.
V. ~Braseris~.
_To_ BRE.
V. ~Biggit~.
_K. Hart._
BRE, BREE, _s._ The eye-brow, S. B.
_Douglas._
"He moved neither _ee nor bree_; i. e. eye nor eyebrow."
V. ~Bra~.
_Ross._
A. S. _breg_, palpebra; Isl. _braa_.
BREADBERRY, _s._ That food of children, which in E. is called _pap_, S.
Perhaps from _bread_ and A. Bor. _berry_, to beat; q. "bruised bread."
BREAK, _s._ A division of land in a farm, S.
_Statist. Acc._
_To_ BREAK, _v. a._ To disappoint, S. B. "_I"se no break you_, I shall not disappoint you," Shirr. Gl.
Isl. _bregd-a_, frustrari aliquem.
BREAK (_of a hill_) _s._ A hollow in a hill, S.
Isl. _breck-a_, crepido, declivitas.
BREARDS, _s. pl._ The short flax recovered from the first tow, by a second hackling. The tow, thrown off by this second hackling, is called _backings_.
_Edin. Courant._
_To_ BREAST, _v. n._ To spring up or forward; a term applied to a horse, S.
_Burns._
From the action of the _breast_ in this effort.
~Breast-woddie~, _s._ That part of the harness of a carriage-horse, which goes round the breast, S. B.
V. ~Rig-Widdie~.
_Journal Lond._
BRECHAME, BRECHEM, _s._ The collar of a working-horse, S.
V. ~Haims~.
_Bannatyne Poems._
_Baurghwan_ is used in the same sense, A. Bor. Gael. Ir. _braigh_, the neck; whence _braighaidain_, a collar. The last syllable has more resemblance of Teut. _hamme_, a collar.
BREDDIT, _part. pa._ Apparently, wreathed.
_Palice of Hon._
A. S. _bred-an_, Teut. _breyd-en_, to wreathe.
BREDE, WYNTER-BREDE, _s._ Provisions for winter.
_Douglas._
This may be merely _bread_. But Isl. _braad_ is rendered, praeda, esca, carnivori animalis.
BREDIR, _s. pl._ Brethren.
V. ~Brodir~.
BREDIS.