BREEKS, BREIKS, _s._ breeches.
BREER, BREARD, _s._ the first blades of grain which appear
above ground.
_To_ BREER, _v. n._ to germinate.
BREID, _s._ breadth.
BRENT, _adj._ high; straight; upright.
BRENTNEW, quite new.
BRIG, BREG, BRYG, _s._ a bridge.
_To_ BRIZE, BIRSE, _v. a._ to bruise; to drive or
push.
BROCHAN, _s._ oatmeal boiled to a consistence thicker than
gruel.
BROCK, _s._ a badger.
BROCKED, BROCKET, _adj._ streaked and spotted, as a
_brockit cow_.
BROCKLIE, _adj._ brittle.
BROD, _s._ a flat piece of wood; a board.
_To_ BROG, _v. a._ to pierce.
BROGUE, _s._ a coarse kind of shoe made of horse leather
with the hair on, used by Highlanders.
BROK, _s._ refuse; fragments.
BROO, _s._ broth.
BROONIE, _s._ a spirit supposed to haunt farm-houses, and
which, if treated well, performed the duties of the servants
while they were sleeping.
BROSE, _s._ a kind of food made by pouring hot water on
oatmeal, and mixing them together. _Kail-brose_ is made by
substituting broth for water.
BROWST, _s._ the quantity of malt liquor brewed at one
time.
BRUGH, BURGH, _s._ a borough; a circular encampment; the
hazy circle round the moon.
BRUSE, BROOSE, BRUISE, _v. a._ _To ride the bruise_,
to run a race on horseback at country weddings.
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