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† browis Obs. or dial.|ˈbraʊɪs| Forms: 3 broys, 4 brouwys, 5 browyce, 5–6 browes, 5–7 -esse, 7– browis; see also brewis, brose. [ME. broys, browes, a. OF. broez, brouetz, nom. of broet, brouet, browet. Of this word browet is an original doublet, and brewis, brose, later variants.] †1. = brewis, in both senses.
a1300Havelok 924 Make þe broys in þe led. c1325Coer de L. 3077 Soupyd off the brouwys a sope. c1430Lydg. Order of Fooles Min. Poems 165 Tendre browyce made with a mary-boon. c1440Promp. Parv. 53 Browesse [v.r. browes], adipatum. c1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 8 She come into the warderobe to ete browesse. 1513W. de Worde Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 274 Potage, as wortes, Iowtes, or browes. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 72, I will eate no browesse sops. 1601Holland Pliny xix. viii, A kinde of broth or browesse. 1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1821) 209 When they kill a beast..make a caldron of his skin, browis of his bowels. 2. A kind of brose; as the browis of the Sheffield Cutlers' Feast, a dish made by pouring boiling water upon oat-cakes mixed with dripping, and seasoned with pepper, salt, and butter.
1839A. Bywater Sheffield Dial. (1877) 32 Nettle porridge an' brawis. 1880Sheff. Independent 3 Sept., Returning to their hall, the members of the Company partook of ‘browis’—a cunningly devised broth without which the installation [of the Master Cutler] would not be complete. |