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BRENN, BREN, Brend, v. [brɛn(d)]

1. To burn (Fif.¹, Arg.¹ 1935).Sc. 1991 John McDonald in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 88:
I lou the unkent virr
that brenns me as yon caunle brenns - lowe an tallie yin rummle.ne.Sc. 1884 D. Grant Lays and Leg. of the North (1908) 16:
The flame that brent within his briest — His first for maiden fair.Abd. 1882 W. Forsyth Sel. from Writings 17:
There simmer walks through fertile fields, An' brenns nae mair the nakit heath.

ppl.adjs. brenning, brendin', brent. See also Brunt, v.Ags. 1924 A. Gray Any Man's Life 45:
Tammas, wha can eat brent bread?Edb. 1928 A. D. Mackie Poems in Two Tongues 23:
Hap step and lowp she was owre the Cairns Wi' her claws in John's wame like brendin' airns.Hdg. 1905 J. Lumsden Edb. and Country Croonings 17:
The weel-kenn'd house . . . stude brent afore my een in the gray dawn.Ayr. 1847 Ballads and Songs of Ayrsh. (ed. J. Paterson) 27:
To beg my bread from door to door, I wis, it were a brenning shame.

2. To brand, fig.Sc. 1864 P. M'Neill Poems (1882) 49:
His brow was brent wi' the wecht o' years.

3. Comb.: brent new, brand new, quite new. Known to Abd.⁹, Fif.¹⁰, Lnk.³ 1935.Sc. 1822 A. Cunningham Trad. Tales I. 189:
But bide ye, let us lay our heads together, and build a brent new meeting-house.Sc. 1921 R. Bain James I of Scot. 3:
And here's another brent new ballad.Gsw. 1991 James Alex McCash in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 14:
Vital, brent-new, wind buff'd intill the
cauldrife, hyperboreal licht;
Sterling-midwived by the ferme-yaird's scaudin,
self-assignit muezzin.Ayr. 1793 Burns Tam o' Shanter (Cent. ed.) ll. 115–116:
Warlocks and witches in a dance: Nae cotillion brent new frae France.