browstn.
/braʊst/, U.S. /braʊst/, Scottish English /brʌʊst/ Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern).
An amount of beer brewed at one time; that which is brewed; a brew. Also figurative.
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1511–12 Rentale Dunkeldense (Adv. 34.1.1) f. 139, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) In expensis..pro factura brasij..in lie broustis.
a1600 Battle of Balrinnes in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 347 Ane bloodie broust there was brouine.
1609 J. Skene tr. Burrow Lawes c. 39 in Regiam Majestatem i. f. 123v For the fourt browest, he [sc. the Browster] sall giue the dewtie of ane halfe zeare.
c1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 537 Yow must cause scripture speak it, or else yow will not brew your browst well.
1695 Proclam. for Inbringing of Excise (single sheet) That no Brewer within Burgh of Royalty or Regality vend or sell any part of their Brousts until first they make entry thereof to the Excise-Office.
1753 Ulster Misc. 386 I hae a browst o' ale for ye to prie.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 68 The browst..of the Howff retained..its unrivalled reputation.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. vii. 165 You will drink a bitter browst of your own brewing one day.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Browst, the brewed liquor. ‘The bigger the brewing, the better the browst.’
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood i. 17 He spilt the browst in the brewhouse.
1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots Rev. xviii. 440 Brew her a browst double in strenth o the browst brewn bi hersel for ithers!
1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. Browst, a complete brewing of ale, three kirns full.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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