An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 109

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Fr. _braverie_, id. from _braver_, to brave, to play the gallant.

BRAUITIE, _s._

1. A show, a pageant.

_Burel._

2. Finery in dress, S.

V. ~Braw~.

_Burel._

Fr. _bravete_, pour avoir de beaux habits; Gl. Roquefort.

BRAUL, BRAWL, _s._ The same as _Brangle_.

_Complaynt S._

Fr. _bransle_, _branle_.

BRAUs.h.i.+E, _adj._ Stormy.

V. ~Brash~, _v._

BRAW, BRA', _adj._

1. Fine, gaily dressed, S.

_Morison._

Teut. _brauwe_, ornatus, bellus; Fr. _brave_, id. Isl. _braer_, nitet, splendet.

2. Handsome, S.

_Burns._

3. Pleasant, agreeable, S.

_A. Nicol._

4. Worthy, excellent, S. _A braw man_, a worthy man, S.

Su. G. _braf_, bonus, praestans. _En braf man_, the very phrase still used by the vulgar in S. Germ. _brav_, id. _Braw_ is often used adverbially, as conjoined with the copulative: _Braw and able_, abundantly able for any work or undertaking; _Braw and weel_, in good health.

Hence,

~Brawly~, _adv._ Very well, S. sometimes _brawlins_, Ang.; _browlies_, _browlins_, Aberd.

_Journal Lond._

Sw. _Han mor braf_, He is well, Wideg.

~Braws~, _pl._ Fine clothes, one's best apparel, S.

_Ross._

Evidently from the _adj._ sense 1.

BRAWEN, _part. pa._ Perhaps, boiled. A. S. _browen_, coctus.

_Polwart._

_To_ BRAWL, _v. n._ To run into confusion; part. pr. _brawland_.

_Barbour._

Fr. _brouill-er_, to embroil, to confound. Su. G. _bryll-a_, perturbare.

BRAWLIT, _part. pa._ Perhaps marbled, mixed; from the same _v._; Fr.

_brouill-er_, to jumble.

_L. Scotland's Lament._

BRAWLINS, _s. pl._ The trailing Strawberry tree, or Bear-berry, S. B.

Arbutus uva ursi, Linn. The name is sometimes applied to the fruit of the Vaccinium vitis Idaea, or red bill-berry.

Gael. _braoilag_ denotes a whortleberry.

BRAXY, BRAXES, BRACKS, _s._

1. A disease in sheep, S.

_Statist. Acc._

This is also called _braik_ and _bracks_, Ang. A. S. _breac_, rheuma; _broc_ sickness, disease; Su. G. _brak_, id.

2. A sheep which has died of disease; also, mutton of this description, S.

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