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▪ I. birse, n.1 Sc.
(bɜːs, Sc. bɪrs)
Forms: 1 byrst, 4 brust, 6 byrs(s, birs. Pl. birses; also 6–7 byrss.
[In 16th c. birs, birss, for earlier birst:—OE. byrst, cogn. with OHG. burst, bursti, ON. burst (Sw. borst, Da. börste) ‘bristle.’ Only Sc. in later times.]
1. = bristle. (to lick the birse: to pass a small bunch of hog's bristles through the mouth—as is done on being made a ‘soutar of Selkirk.’)
a700Epinal Gl. 905 Seta, byrst. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 156 Swylce swinene byrst. c1330Rouland & V. 860 No is worþ þe brust of a swin. 1513Douglas æneis viii. iv. 181 The rouch byrsis on the brest and crest Of that..beist. 1721J. Kelly Sc. Prov. 338 (Jam.) The souter gae the sow a kiss; ‘grumph,’ quo she, ‘its a' for the birse.’ 1724Ramsay Ever-Green (1761) I. 253 Knichts of the Birs and Thumble. 1815Scott in Lockhart xxxvi. (1839) V. 123 I am still puzzled to dispose of the Birse. Note. A birse or bunch of hog's bristles forms the cognizance of the Sutors. 1882Society 14 Oct. 5/1 Mr. G. O. Trevelyan..will require to ‘lick the birse’ at Selkirk.
b. Short hair of the beard or body.
a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 147 Many of thame lacked beardis..and tharefore could not bukkill other by the byrse. 1786Burns Addr. Beelzebub, They lay aside all tender mercies, An' tirl the hallions to the birses.
2. fig. In the phrase to set up the birse, etc.: Temper, rage, anger, in allusion to animals that bristle up when irritated.
1622Course Conformitie 153 (Jam.) Now his birse rise when he heareth the one. 1816Scott Antiq. xxi, He wad set up the tother's birse, and maybe do mair ill nor gude. 1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. xi. (1849) 122 To smooth the birsses of their husbonds. 1871Guthrie Speech Westm. Hotel 19 July, This set up my birse.
Hence birsit a. Sc., bristled, bristly.
1513Douglas æneis vii. i. 35 The birsit baris and beris in thair styis Roring all wod.
▪ II. birse, n.2 Sc.
Also 9 birz.
[as prec.]
a. A bruise.
b. ‘The act of pressing; the pressure made by a crowd.’ (Jamieson.)
1821Sir A. Wylie III. 292 (Jam.) My brother has met wi' a severe birz and contusion.
▪ III. birse, v. Sc.
[Sc. variant of briz = bruise.]
trans. a. To bruise, crush. b. To press, push.
1513–75Diurn. Occurr. (1833) 293 Borne to jybbit, becaus he wes birsit with the buttis [the ‘Boots’]. 1790Shirref Poems 348 (Jam.) For they're ay birsing in their spurs Whare they can get them. 1879Jamieson s.v. Birse, I saw Sisyphus..Birzing a heavy stane up a high brae. |