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▪ I. † breer Obs. exc. in Sc. or north dial.
[cf. next.]
A sprout, shoot; in mod.Sc. ‘the first appearance of grain above ground, after it is sown’ (Jamieson).
c1320Cast. Love 123 Blosme on bouȝ and breer on rys. 1808Jamieson s.v. A fine breer, an abundant germination.
▪ II. † breer, brere, v. Sc. or north dial.
A variant of braird, to sprout, germinate.
c1700Kennet MS. Gloss., To brere..as corn just coming up. 1816Scott Old Mort. viii, ‘A braw night this for the rye..the west park will be breering bravely this e'en.’ 1846Brockett Gloss. N.C. Wds., Brere, Brear.
▪ III. breer(e
dial. form of brier. |