To rivers were transformed; whose pureness doth declare
How excellent they were by being what they are ...
...
[they]
to Severn shape their course.
M. Drayton, Polyolbion, iv. (1612).
Brec'han (Prince), father of St. Cadock and St. Canock, the former a martyr and the latter a confessor.
Breck (Alison), an old fishwife, friend of the Mucklebackits.—Sir W. Scott, The Antiquary (time, Greorge III.).
Breck (Angus), a follower of Rob Roy M'Gregor, the outlaw.—Sir W. Scott, Rob Roy (time, Greorge I.).
Breitman (Hans), the giver of the entertainment celebrated in Charles Godfrey Leland's dialect verses, Hans Breitman gave a Party. A favorite with parlor and platform "readers." (1871.)