Part 108 (1/2)

BRASH, BRASHE, _s_ An effort, an attack, an assault; as E _brush_ is used

_Muses Thren_

BRASHY, BRAUshi+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 constitution, 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 coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean, S ”_Brat_, a coarse apron, a rag, Lincolns” Gl Grose

3 Coarse clothing, S; _dudds_, synon A S _bratt_ signifies both palliu,” Sos

4 Scunify refuse; but is also applied to the cream which rises froue_, or the _floatings_ of boiled whey

_Statist Acc_

BRATCHART, _s_ A contemptuous term equivalent to E _whelp_

V ~Brachell~

_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