brach

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹæt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ætʃ

Noun

brach (plural brachs or braches)

1. (archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound.
   • ca. 1604-1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1, 4, 109-111.

     FOOL: Truth's a dog that must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.

   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, First Folio (1623), III.6:

     Mastiffe, Grey-hound, Mongrill, Grim, / Hound or Spaniell, Brache, or Hym […].

   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
     , NYRB 2001, vol.1 p.331:

     A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”

2. (archaic, derogatory) A despicable or disagreeable woman.

See also

• brachet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Noun

brach (plural brachs)

1. (paleontology, informal) brachiopod

Declension

Noun

brach m (genitive singular bracha)

1. pus
2. discharge from eyes during sleep

Noun

brach f (genitive singular braiche)

1. Alternative form of braich (“malt”)

Verb

brach (present analytic brachann, future analytic brachfaidh, verbal noun brachadh, past participle brachta)

1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of braich (“malt”)

Declension