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_Dunbar._

BRUE. _s._

V. ~Bree~.

BRUGH, BROGH, BROUGH, BURGH, _s._

1. An encampment of a circular form, S. B.

In Lothian, encampments of the circular form are called _Ring-forts_, from A. S. _hring_, orbis, circulus.

2. This name is also given to the stronger sort of houses in which the Picts are said to have resided.

_Brand._

3. A borough. ”A royal _brugh_;” ”A _brugh_ of barony,” as distinguished from the other, S. B.

V. ~Burch~.

4. A hazy circle round the disk of the sun or moon, generally considered as a presage of a change of weather, is called a _brugh_ or _brogh_, S.

_Statist. Acc._

A. S. _beorg_, _borh_, munimentum, agger, arx, ”a rampire, a place of defence and succour,” Somner; _burg_, castellum, Lye. The origin is probably found in Moes. G. _bairgs_, mons.

BRUICK, BRUK, _s._ A kind of boil, S.

_Gl. Complaynt._

An inflamed tumour or swelling of the glands under the arm is called a _bruick-boil_, S. B., p.r.o.n. as _brook_.

Isl. _bruk_, elatio, tumor; expl. of a swelling that suppurates.

_To_ BRUIK, BRUKE, BROOK, _v. a._ To enjoy, to possess.

_Poems Buchan Dial._

A. S. _bruc-an_, Franc. _gebruch-en_, Su. G. Isl. _bruk-a_, Belg.

_bruyck-en_, Germ. _brauch-en_, to use.

BRUKYL, BROKYLL, BROKLIE, _adj._

1. Brittle, easily broken, S.

_Kelly._