An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Brawly, adv. Very well, S. sometimes brawlins, Ang.; browlies, browlins, Aberd.
Journal Lond.

Sw. Han mor braf, He is well, Wideg.

Braws, pl. Fine clothes, one's best apparel, S.
Ross.

Evidently from the adj. sense 1.

BRAWEN, part. pa. Perhaps, boiled.

A. S. browen, coctus.

Polwart.

To BRAWL, v. n. To run into confusion; part. pr. brawland.
Barbour.

Fr. brouill-er, to embroil, to confound. Su. G. bryll-a, perturbare.

BRAWLIT, part. pa. Perhaps marbled, mixed; from the same v.; Fr. brouill-er, to jumble.
L. Scotland's Lament.