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.
