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Definition of Birse
1. n. A bristle or bristles.
Definition of Birse
1. Noun. (Scotland) A bristle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Birse
1. a bristle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birse
Literary usage of Birse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selected Short Stories by Claude Moore Fuess (1914)
"JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE How GAVIN birse PUT IT TO MAG LOWNIE IN a wet ... women scudded
by with their wrappers over their heads, came Gavin birse to our door. ..."
2. Switzerland: Or, A Journal of a Tour and Residence in that Country, in the by Louis Simond (1823)
"... to restore the Roman road along the birse. The Jura, like most calcareous
mountains, abounds with fossil remains of plants and animals. ..."
3. Scottish Law Magazine, and Sheriff Court Reporter by Scotland Sheriff Courts (1862)
"The action was directed against the Inspectors of St Nicholas and birse, and
concluded for decree against St Nicholas, in the event of its being found that ..."
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