An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 109
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 109
Fr. _braverie_, id. from _braver_, to brave, to play the gallant.
BRAUITIE, _s._
1. A show, a pageant.
_Burel._
2. Finery in dress, S.
V. ~Braw~.
_Burel._
Fr. _bravete_, pour avoir de beaux habits; Gl. Roquefort.
BRAUL, BRAWL, _s._ The same as _Brangle_.
_Complaynt S._
Fr. _bransle_, _branle_.
BRAUSHIE, _adj._ Stormy.
V. ~Brash~, _v._
BRAW, BRA, _adj._
1. Fine, gaily dressed, S.
_Morison._
Teut. _brauwe_, ornatus, bellus; Fr. _brave_, id. Isl. _braer_, nitet, splendet.
2. Handsome, S.
_Burns._
3. Pleasant, agreeable, S.
_A. Nicol._
4. Worthy, excellent, S. _A braw man_, a worthy man, S.
Su. G. _braf_, bonus, praestans. _En braf man_, the very phrase still used by the vulgar in S. Germ. _brav_, id. _Braw_ is often used adverbially, as conjoined with the copulative: _Braw and able_, abundantly able for any work or undertaking; _Braw and weel_, in good health.
Hence,
~Brawly~, _adv._ Very well, S. sometimes _brawlins_, Ang.; _browlies_, _browlins_, Aberd.
_Journal Lond._
Sw. _Han mor braf_, He is well, Wideg.
~Braws~, _pl._ Fine clothes, ones best apparel, S.
_Ross._
Evidently from the _adj._ sense 1.
BRAWEN, _part. pa._ Perhaps, boiled. A. S. _browen_, coctus.
_Polwart._
_To_ BRAWL, _v. n._ To run into confusion; part. pr. _brawland_.
_Barbour._
Fr. _brouill-er_, to embroil, to confound. Su. G. _bryll-a_, perturbare.
BRAWLIT, _part. pa._ Perhaps marbled, mixed; from the same _v._; Fr.
_brouill-er_, to jumble.
_L. Scotlands Lament._
BRAWLINS, _s. pl._ The trailing Strawberry tree, or Bear-berry, S. B.
Arbutus uva ursi, Linn. The name is sometimes applied to the fruit of the Vaccinium vitis Idaea, or red bill-berry.
Gael. _braoilag_ denotes a whortleberry.
BRAXY, BRAXES, BRACKS, _s._
1. A disease in sheep, S.
_Statist. Acc._
This is also called _braik_ and _bracks_, Ang. A. S. _breac_, rheuma; _broc_ sickness, disease; Su. G. _brak_, id.
2. A sheep which has died of disease; also, mutton of this description, S.