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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 montis; Isl. _brun-a_, to lift one's self on high. Meo judicio _bryn_ notat id, quod ceteris superstat, aut prae aliis eminet; Ihre. Isl.

_brun_, Germ. _aug-braunen_, Alem. _braane_, the eyebrow. Sw. _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 simplici _brask_, sonitus; Ihre. It may, however, be originally the same with _Brash_, q. v.

BRESS, _pl._ Bristles.

_Dunbar._

BRESSIE, _s._ A fish, supposed to be the Wra.s.se, or Old Wife, Labrus Tinca, Linn.

_Sibbald._

Perhaps radically the same with E. _wra.s.se_.

BREST, _part. pa._ Forcibly removed; or as denoting the act of breaking away with violence; for _burst_.

_Douglas._