birslen.
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‘A hasty toasting or scorching’ (Jamieson); the toasted or scorched surface (of a potato, etc.).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
birslev.
/ˈbəːs(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈbərs(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈbɪrs(ə)l/, /ˈbʌrs(ə)l/ Scottish.
transitive. To scorch (the surface) with radiant heat; to toast hard; also figurative.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > damage or injure by heat or fire > scorch
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Phrygianize1836
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xiii. 36 Feill echirris of corn thik growing, Wyth the new sonnys heit byrsyllit.
1716 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 137 He was sorry he got not the old dog's bones to birsle in the flames.
1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xi. 132 Than ye maun sit an' birsle yoursels afore the fire at hame.
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ˈbirsled adj.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injured by heat or fire > scorched
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a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. viii. 109 Blunt steyngis of the byrsillit [1553 brissillit] tre.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Brusle, to dry; as ‘the sun brusles the hay’; and ‘brusled pease,’ parch'd pease.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. v. 200 I trained best, so far as wind was concerned, on birsled pease and whisky.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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