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▪ I. † ˈbracky, a.1 Obs.
Also 7 brachie.
[f. brack n.6 + -y1.]
= brackish a.
1593Drayton Eclog. iv. 90 Men, Sea-Monsters, swam the bracky Flood. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 795 The water becometh brachie.
fig.1583Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 101 Netled with theese brackye nouels [L. rumore amaro].
▪ II. bracky, a.2
[f. brack, var. of brake n.1 and brake n.2; the two being confused.]
a. = brackeny.
b. Of the nature of a brake or thicket.
a1618Sylvester Job Triumph. (1620) 945 The brackie barren wildernesse. 1628Coke On Litt. 4 b, A brackie ground is called filicetum, ubi filices crescunt. |