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brache (gcide) | brach \brach\, brache \brache\(br[a^]k or br[a^]ch), n. [OE.
brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache,
F. braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke; related to Sw. brack
a dog that hunts by scent; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr.
L. fragrare to smell.]
A bitch of the hound kind. See also bratchet. --Shak. [Also
spelled bratch when pronounced (br[a^]ch).]
[1913 Webster + Century Dict. 1906]
A sow pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was
grown would miraculously hunt all manner of deer.
--Burton
(Anatomy of
Melancholy).
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Brachelytra (gcide) | Brachelytra \Brach*el"y*tra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. (?) short + ?
a covering.] (Zool.)
A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.
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brachet (gcide) | brachet \brachet\, (br[a^]ch), n.
same as bratchet.
[Century Dict. 1906]bratchet \bratch"et\, (br[a^]ch"[e^]t), n. [Sc. also bratchart;
fr. ME. brachet, fr. OF. brachet; ML. brachetus, dim. of
brache a hound. See brach.]
a kind of hound; a brach; -- applied contemptuously to a
child. See also brach. [Also spelled brachet.]
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The bratchet's bay
From the dark covert drove the prey. --Scott,
(Marmion, ii.
int.).
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To be plagued with a bratchet whelp -- Whence came ye,
my fair-favoured little gossip? . --Scott,
(Kenilworth,
II. xxi).
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