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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Brasche, Brash, n. Also: brasch, brashe, braish, brase, brach(e. [Imitative, or suggested by F. brèche breach.]

1. A violent onset, attack, or assault. 1570 Leslie 285.
Thai gaif ane gret brase & assault to the same [wallis] 1573 Sat. P. xxxix. 139.
Thoise at the bak wall wes the brasche thay gaue a1578 Pitsc. II. 303/4.
The Inglismen gave ane brasche to the castell at Sanctmargretis port c1590 J. Stewart 13/33.
Thair brasche of battell boldlie did he byd Ib. 62/182.
As ane tour … That byds the brasche a1605 Montg. Son. xxii. 5.
Byde ȝe the brash, vhill I my battrie bring 1596 Dalr. I. 91/11.
He was formost and gaue the first brasche in the feild Ib. 204/17.
Kirkes … throuch brasche of weir fallin doune Ib. II. 316/26.
The Frenche men … maid a brach in at the portes 1609 Gardyne Garden 5.
I should not feare to send them freely forth To byd the braish of each arbitriment a1651 Calderwood IV. 653.
The dangerous parts of the countrie where Papistrie and corruption hath cheefelie made the brasche

2. An attack or fit of illness. 1622 Crim. Trials III. 527.
The said Margaret tuik ane sudden brasche of seiknes 1628 Stirling Antiq. IV. 188.
Janet Chrystie … tuik ane great brasche of seiknes 1680-6 Lauder Observes 149.
In that brash [which] the King then took