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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._
_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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