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.
