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BRAWNGE or BRONGE, v. to boast. The g is soft.
 * ' A swaggering brawnging fellow. '

BRAWN HERST. See BRAWN. The meaning is ' boar wood. ' " ' Brawn herst (pasture) lying, ' &c., in Bradfield, and containing 3a. or. 34p.—Harrison. See BEARES STORTH, i.e. bears ' wood. Cf. Boarhurst in Rochdale.

BRAZEN-FACED, adj. impudent.
 * ' A gret brazen-faced hussy. '

BREAD-AND-CHEESE, sb. the hawthorn when just bursting into full leaf.

BREAKES. ' Item the new breakes and the warth lying next Darwin water ' in Bradfield.—Harrison. A few lines below he mentions a field called ' New Ground ' Stratmann gives brêche, ager novalis, new ground. There is a place called ' the Brecks ' in Staveley. See BRIGHTSIDE.

BREAST-HEEAD, sb. the nipple of the breast.
 * ' Hah's yer breast-heeads, Lydda? ' —Bywater.

BREATHE, v.
 * ' To breathe a vein, ' i.e., let blood.—Hunter's MS.

BREDE, sb. a breadth.
 * When sportsmen are shooting in a wood a number of men called beaters form a line and beat or drive the game before them. Each breadth or portion of ground beaten is called a brede. M.E. brede.

BREE, adj. cold, sharp.
 * ' High and bree. '

BREED OF, v. to resemble.
 * ' She breeds of her mother. ' ' They breed of the old stock. ' H.
 * ' Ye brayde of Mowile that went by the way,
 * Many shepe can she polle but oone she had ay. '
 * Towneley Mysteries, 88.

BREET, adj. bright.
 * ' Thar't a breet lad. '

BREIT, adj. ' sometimes, but rarely, heard in the sense of rife. '
 * Hunters MS.

BRELSFORTH ORCHARDS, the fields between Fargate and Balm Green and Church Lane. Old Map.

BREME, adj. bleak, cold.
 * ' It ' s very breme uppa yond hill. ' ' Brim, sharp and keen. ' —Banks.

BREND WOOD, near Holmesfield. M.E., brend, burnt, not brent, steep. See BURNED ACRE, and BURNT HILL.