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▪ I. † bruche1 Obs.
[OE. bryce, ME. bruche (ü) = OHG. bruh, MHG., modGer. bruch, MLG. broke, MDu. brōke, bröke, Du. breuk:—OTeut. *brukiz-, from stem bruk- of brek-an to break. In later ME. superseded by breche, breach.]
1. The action of breaking, fracture; fig. the breaking or violation of a command, engagement, etc.; transgression.
a900Pol. Laws ælfred §3 (Bosw.) Ðæs borᵹes bryce. a1000Guthlac 670 (Gr.) Ne sy him banes bryce. c1300Thrush & Night. 28 Ne wes neuere bruche so strong I-broke with riȝte ne with wrong.
b. esp. Violation of chastity.
a1225Ancr. R. 38 Wiðuten euerich bruche, mid ihol meidenhod and meidenes menske. c1230Hali Meid. 13 Vre flesch..ȝif þat ha wit hire wiðute bruche cleane.
2. A fractured or injured part; a fissure or break; = breach n. 7.
a1225Leg. Kath. 1614 Þe bruchen of hire bodi, al tobroken of þe beatinge. a1307in Rel. Antiq. II. 272 At the furmeste bruche that he fond He lep in and over he wond.
▪ II. † bruche2 Obs. rare.
Also brueche.
(See quot.)
1562Turner Herbal ii. 29 b, Agarike is the same in a Larche tre that brueche as the Northern Englishmen call it, or as other call it, a todstole, is in a birche or a walnut tre..It groweth..vpon the bole or body of the tre..as other thynges lyke mushrummes todestooles or bruches do. |