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BRASH, BRASHE, _s._ An effort, an attack, an a.s.sault; as E. _brush_ is used.
_Muses Thren._
BRASHY, BRAUs.h.i.+E, _adj._ Stormy, S.
_J. Nicol._
BRASH, _s._ A transient attack of sickness; a bodily indisposition of whatever kind, S. _Quhither_, synon. S. B.
_Burns._
The disorder to which children are often subject after being weaned, is called the _speaning-brash_. We also speak of "a _brash_ of the teeth." This, perhaps, is merely a different sense of the s. as explained above. Isl. _breisk_, however, signifies infirm, _breiskleike_, weakness, G. Andr.
BRASHY, _adj._ Delicate in const.i.tution, subject to frequent ailments, S.
_To_ BRAST, _v. n._ To burst.
_Douglas._
_Brast_ is used in the same sense by R. Glouc.
BRAT, _s._
1. Clothing in general. _The bit and the brat_, S. Food and raiment.
_Scotch Presb. Eloq._
2. A coa.r.s.e kind of ap.r.o.n for keeping the clothes clean, S. "_Brat_, a coa.r.s.e ap.r.o.n, a rag, Lincolns." Gl. Grose.
3. Coa.r.s.e clothing, S.; _dudds_, synon. A. S. _bratt_ signifies both pallium and panniculus; "a cloak, a rag," Somner. C. B. _brathay_, rags.
4. Sc.u.m, S. It does not necessarily signify refuse; but is also applied to the cream which rises from milk, especially of what is called a _sour cogue_, or the _floatings_ of boiled whey.
_Statist. Acc._
BRATCHART, _s._ A contemptuous term equivalent to E. _whelp_.
V. ~Brach.e.l.l~.
_Montgomerie._
From Fr. _bratchet_, a kind of small hound; or immediately formed from _Brach_.
_To_ BRATH, _v. a._ To plait straw-ropes round a stack, crossing them at intervals, S. B.
A. S. _braed-an_, to weave together; Isl. _bregd-a_, nectere fila in funem.
~Brathins~, _s. pl._ The cross ropes of the roof of a thatched house, or stack; also called _etherins_, Ang.
Isl. _bragd_, nexus.
BRATHLY, _adj._ Noisy.
V. ~Braithlie~.
_To_ BRATTYL, BRATTLE, _v. n._
1. To make a clas.h.i.+ng or clattering noise, S.
_Douglas._
2. To advance rapidly, making a noise with the feet, S.
_Ramsay._
Isl. _briot-a_, _bryt-a_, exagitare, hue illucque movere, ut luctantes; Teut. _bortel-en_, tumultuari.
~Brattyl~, ~Brattle~, _s._
1. A clattering noise, as that made by the feet of horses, when prancing, or moving rapidly, S.
_Ross._
2. Hurry, rapid motion of any kind, S.
_Ramsay._
3. A short race, S.
_Burns._
4. Fury, violent attack, S.
_Burns._
BRAVERY, _s._ A bravado, a gasconade.
_Spotswood._
