{Breth, Brethe,} wind, C. 107, 138; smell, vapour, B. 509, 967. Cf. “_brethe_ of smoke.” (Hampole’s Pricke of Conscience, l. 4727.) Sc. _broth_. Ger. _brodem_, _broden_, steam, vapour. A.S. _bræth_, an odour, scent, breath. “_Brethe_ at his wille.” (T. B. 1945.) Breth, wrath, B. 916. See _Brath_. Breue, tell, A. 755. “_Breve_ us thi name.” (K. Alex. p. 78.) Breued, related, written, B. 197. O.N. _brefa_. Breyþed, rushed, B. 1421. See _Braid_. Brod, great; “_brod_ wonder,” B. 584. Brode, broad, A. 650. {Brok, Broke,} brook, river, stream, A. 981; _pl._ _brokeȝ_. A. 1074, sea; C. 145. A.S. _broca_. Brom (broom), heath, C. 392. A.S. _bróm_. Bronch, branch, B. 487. Bronde, sword, B. 1246. O.N. _brandr_. Brond, brand, B. 1012. Broþe, angry, fierce, rough, B. 149, 1409. The original form in O.E. is _brathe_. It is connected with _brethe_, _brathe_, anger, wrath. “Wreth it es a _brath_ on-fall (outburst) Menging o mode that cums o galle.” --(The Deadly Sins, in Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii.) {Broþely, Broþlych,} fierce, rough, and hence vile, bad, B. 848, 1030; vilely, B. 1256; C. 474. The original form is _braþly_, fiercely, vigorously. “Thoner o-loft fal sal he (Antichrist) gar, And tres _brathli_ blomes bere; _Brathli_ to do the see be reth (stormy) And _brathli_ to do it be smeth.” --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 124a.) Broun, brown, A. 537, 990. Browden, clustered, B. 1132. Broȝt, brought, A. 286. Brugge = brigge, bridge, B. 1187. A.S. _bricge_. Brunt, blow, A. 174. “All þat was bitten of the best (beast) was at a brunt dede.” --(K. Alex. p. 134.) Brurd, border, edge, B. 1474. Sc. _breard_. A.S. _brerd_, _breard_, _briord_, _breord_, brim, margin, rim, shore, brink. Brurd-ful, brimful, full up to the brim, B. 383. Chaucer uses _bret-ful_ in the same sense. Brutage = bretage, parapets of a wall, ramparts, B. 1190. Fr. _breteche_. Bruxle, upbraid, reprove, C. 345. O.N. _bríxla_, to reprove, reproach. Brych, filth, uncleanness, B. 848. The meaning here assigned to _brych_ is conjectural. Cf. Du. _brack_, refuse, damaged. Ger. _brechen_, to vomit, _Bryche_ as an adjective occurs in Robt. Brunne’s “Handlyng Synne,” p. 182, where it is glossed low (loghe) _i.e._ vile. “Now ys Pers bycome _bryche_ That er was bothe stoute and ryche.” In the Romance of Alexander, ed. Stevenson, we find the form _bicchid_ = _briched_ (?). Cf. _shille_ and _shrille_, etc. “And on the aȝtent day, eftire the prime A basilisk in a browe, breis (annoys) thaim unfaire, A straȝtill and a stithe worme _stinkande_ of elde, And es so bitter, and so breme, and _bicchid_ (foul) in himselfe, That with the _stinke_ and the strenth he stroyes noȝt allane, Bot quat he settes on his siȝt, he slaes in a stonde.” --(p. 165.) Bryd, lady, A. 769. A.S.