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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Browst, Broust, n. Also: browest. [f. brow-, Brew v.] A brewing. Also fig. 1511–2 Rentale Dunkeld. fol. 139.
In expensis … pro factura brasij … in lie broustis 1580 Inverness B. Rec. I. 275.
He brewit nocht … bot ane broust at Yule last 1596 Misc. Spald. C. I. 91.
At hir first browst … , the haill wort being plaid, and putt in lwmes 1594 Battle of Balrinnes ii. in Dalyell Sc. Poems 16th Cent. 347.
Of lait I heir Ane bloodie broust there was brouine 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. 123 b.
For the fourt browest, he sall giue the dewtie of ane halfe ȝeare 1616 Stirling B. Rec. I. 144.
Ane impost of viij d. … of ilk browst of aill or beir 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 461.
I fear I should have made an ill browst of this honourable cross 1650 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 588.
A broust of aill at fourtie-eight gallons