In Lothian, encampments of the circular form are called Ring-forts, from A. S. hring, orbis, circulus.
2. This name is also given to the stronger sort of houses in which the Picts are said to have resided.
Brand.
3. A borough. "A royal brugh;" "A brugh of barony," as distinguished from the other, S. B.
V. [Burch].
4. A hazy circle round the disk of the sun or moon, generally considered as a presage of a change of weather, is called a brugh or brogh, S.
Statist. Acc.
A. S. beorg, borh, munimentum, agger, arx, "a rampire, a place of defence and succour," Somner; burg, castellum, Lye. The origin is probably found in Moes. G. bairgs, mons.
BRUICK, BRUK, s. A kind of boil, S.
Gl. Complaynt.
An inflamed tumour or swelling of the glands under the arm is called a bruick-boil, S. B., pron. as brook.
Isl. bruk, elatio, tumor; expl. of a swelling that suppurates.
To BRUIK, BRUKE, BROOK, v. a. To enjoy, to possess.
Poems Buchan Dial.
A. S. bruc-an, Franc. gebruch-en, Su. G. Isl. bruk-a, Belg. bruyck-en, Germ. brauch-en, to use.
BRUKYL, BROKYLL, BROKLIE, adj.
1. Brittle, easily broken, S.
Kelly.
Hamilton.
2. Metaph. used in relation to the unsettled state of political matters.
Baillie.
3. It seems to signify soft, pliable, as applied to the mind.
Wyntown.
4. Fickle, inconstant.
Wallace.
5. Inconstant, as including the idea of deceit.
King's Quair.
6. Weak, delicate, sickly, S. B.
7. Apt to fall into sin, or to yield to temptation.
Abp. Hamiltoun.
Teut. brokel, fragilis, from brok-en, frangere; Sw. braeckelig, id. Germ. brocklicht, crumbling.