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 An ancient custom still prevails of eating browis during the morning of the Sheffield Cutlers' Feast. ' It consists or consisted of bits of oatcake mixed with dripping and hot water poured upon them, with salt and pepper seasoning. ' L.
 * ' We'n had menni a mess a nettle porridge an brawis on a Sunda mo'nin for us brekfast. ' —Bywater, 32.

BROWN-CLOCK, sb. a brown beetle. H.

BROWN GEORGE, sb. the commoner sort of brown bread.

BROWN SHILLER or SHELLER, sb. a ripe hazel nut.

BROWS, sb. pl. the brim of a hat. See BREWERS.

BRUN, v. to burn.

BRUNTLING, sb. a little child.
 * ' Come here, thah little bruntling. '

BRUNTLING, sb. a cockchafer. It is sometimes called ' Dusty Miller. '

BRUSHES. ' A wood called Brushes. ' —Harrison.
 * There is a place called the Brushes near Whittington.

BRUSHING HOOK, sb. a sickle-shaped knife at the end of a pole, used for cutting hedges.

BRUSKET, sb. the breast, stomach.
 * To be ' fast i ' t ' brusket is said of a person who has eaten some indigestible food. ' A brusket, Pectusculum. ' —Cath. Angl.

BRUSSEN, pa. p. burst.
 * ' It maks me think abaht t ' lass wot run intot hahce ommast brussen. ' —Bywater, 263.
 * In Derbyshire when fish are well fed by food brought down by a flood, and will not bite, they are said to be flood-brussen. Heart-brussen and brussen-hearted are used for broken-hearted.

BRUSSEN-GUTS, sb. a glutton.

BRUST, pa. p. burst.

BRYETT MEADOW, a field in Sheffield.
 * ' Imprimis a parte of Bryett meadow lying next unto Hallam. ' —Harrison. See BRIGHT and BRYTLANDE WELL.

BRYTLANDE WELL, sb. an old well formerly in Sheffield.
 * ' Delyuryd to Jaymes Heldysworthe an Nycholus Stanyforde for the mendynge of Brytlande well. . . . xijs. ' —T. T. A., 32. This occurs in 1566. Brit, Bret, Brut, a Celt or Welshman. Stratmann quotes Brutlond from Lazamon ' s Brut, 2194. See BRIGHT.