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

BRESCHE, s. An attack.
Knox.

Su. G. brask-a, sonitum edere, tumultum excitare denotat, a simplici brask, sonitus; Ihre. It may, however, be originally the same with [Brash], q. v.

BRESS, pl. Bristles.
Dunbar.

BRESSIE, s. A fish, supposed to be the Wrasse, or Old Wife, Labrus Tinca, Linn.
Sibbald.

Perhaps radically the same with E. wrasse.

BREST, part. pa. Forcibly removed; or as denoting the act of breaking away with violence; for burst.
Douglas.

Breste, to burst. Chaucer.

BRETH, s. Apparently, rage, wrath.
Houlate.

Su. G. Isl. braede, praeceps ira, furor. This is probably allied to braad-a, accelerare.

BRETHIR, BRETHER, s. pl. Brethren.
Wyntown.