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browst Sc.|braʊst|
Forms: ? 5 browest, 6 broust, 6– browst.
[f. brow-, pa. ppl. stem of brew, or perh. of earlier origin, from the root bru-, as in OHG. brû-hûs; cf. also Du. brouw-sel ‘a browst’: the nature of the suffix is not clear. (Some modern writers have perverted this to brewst.)]
A brewing; a brewage. Also fig.
a1500Burrow Lawes xxxix. (Jam.) For the fourt browest, he [the Browster] sall giue the dewtie of ane halfe yeare. 1594Batt. Balrinnes in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 347 Ane bloodie broust there was brouine. 1650Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 537 Yow must cause scripture speak it, or else yow will not brew your browst well. 1816Scott Old Mort. iv, The browst of the Howff retained..its unrivalled reputation. 1823― Quentin D. vii, You will drink a bitter browst of your own brewing one day. |