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BRENT, _adj_ High, straight, upright, S

_Maitland Poems_

It most frequently occurs in one peculiar application, in connexion with _brow_, as denoting a high forehead, as contra-distinguished from one that is flat

_Douglas_

A Bor _brant_, or _brunt_, steep A brant hill, Northumb It is also used in Westmorel _Brent-brow_, a steep hill; Su G _bryn_, vertex h Meo judicio _bryn_ notat id, quod ceteris superstat, aut prae aliis eminet; Ihre Isl

_brun_, Ger-braunen_, Alem _braane_, the eyebro _brant_, steep; _en brant klippa_, a steep rock

BRENT-NEW, quite new

V ~Brand-new~

BRERD, _s_ The whole substance on the face of the earth

_Gawan and Gol_

A S _brerd_, summum

_To_ BRERE, _v n_ To germinate

V ~Breer~

BRESCHE, _s_ An attack

_Knox_

Su G _brask-a_, sonitum edere, tumultum excitare denotat, a siinally the same with _Brash_, q v

BRESS, _pl_ Bristles

_Dunbar_

BRESSIE, _s_ A fish, supposed to be the Wrasse, or Old Wife, Labrus Tinca, Linn

_Sibbald_

Perhaps radically the same with E _wrasse_

BREST, _part pa_ Forcibly re aith violence; for _burst_