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_Hamilton._

2. Metaph. used in relation to the unsettled state of political matters.

_Baillie._

3. It seems to signify soft, pliable, as applied to the mind.

_Wyntown._

4. Fickle, inconstant.

_Wallace._

5. Inconstant, as including the idea of deceit.

_King's Quair._

6. Weak, delicate, sickly, S. B.

7. Apt to fall into sin, or to yield to temptation.

_Abp. Hamiltoun._

Teut. _brokel_, fragilis, from _brok-en_, frangere; Sw.

_braeckelig_, id. Germ. _brocklicht_, crumbling.

~Bruckilness~, ~Brokilness~, _s._

1. Brittleness, S.

2. Apparently, incoherence, or perhaps weakness; used metaphorically.

_King's Quair._

BRUDY, _adj._ Prolific.

V. ~Broodie~.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

BRULYIE, BRULYEMENT, _s._

1. A brawl, broil, fray, or quarrel, S.

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