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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Brent, adj. [ME. brent (14th c.), var. of brant, OE. brant, bront, steep.] Upright. Chiefly as an epithet of browis.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xxxiv. 21.
With ... forred brade, With browis brent ?1438 Alex. i. 666.
Richt stout visage and fair he had, With browis brent and shoulderis braid a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 173.
Iuppiter … with burelie face, and browis bricht and brent 1513 Doug. viii. xii. 14.
From hys blyth browys brent and athir eyn The fyre twynklyng 1567 Sat. P. iii. 58.
With browis brent and twinkland cristell eine a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxxv. 25.
Hir brouis ar brent 1629 Boyd Last B. 252.
With brent browes and … sterne countenance(2) 1535 Stewart 47748.
With armes lang and schulderis brent and braid a1578 Pitsc. ii. 17/18.
He was ane strang man … and ȝeid brent and right wpe in his passage a1570-86 Maitl. F. lix. 35.
My bak, that sum tyme brent hes bene, Now cruikis lyk ane camok tre a1585 Maitl. Q. xl. 94.
Ȝour bodye brent, ȝour middill small 1591-2 Rob Stene 22.
As veschell fragill and unstable, Toist heir and thair, now slak now brent