Part 115 (1/2)

A S _bryn_, incendium, and _stan_, q lapis incendii seu incendiarius Sw _braensten_, id

BRIN, BRINN, _s_ A ray, a beam, a flash, S B

_Poems Buchan Dial_

BRINK

~To Brink~ Perhaps, inwardly

_Sir Tristrem_

Q in pectore; Isl Su G _bring-a_, pectus

BRINKIT, _part pa_ Perhaps, bronzed

_Bannatyne Poems_

Su G _brinna_, to burn, or _braecka_, to roast

BRISKET, BISKET, _s_ The breast, S

_Morison_

Fr _brichet_, id Perhaps we have the origin of the word in Isl

_briosk_, Sw _brusk_, gristle The word in E denotes ”the breast of an animal” It bears this sense also in S, and is sometimes corr

called _briskin_

BRISMAK, _s_ The naiven to Torsk, our Tusk, in Shetland

BRISSAL, _adj_ Brittle Gl Sibb

Aleilitas; Otfrid Fr _bresiller_, rompre, briser, mettre en pieces; Gl Roquefort

BRISSEL-cock, _s_ Apparently the turkey-cock

_Pitscottie_

Denoh and _bristly_ appearance; or q

_Brasil-cock_, as, according to Pennant, the turkey was unknown to the old world before the discovery of America ”The first birds of this kind,” he supposes, ”ht from Mexico”

_To_ BRISSLE, _v a_ To broil, &c