Lexicographical Neighbors of Birsy
Literary usage of Birsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traditions of the Covenanters; or, Gleanings among the mountains by Robert Simpson (1846)
"From the trade which he followed, he received the nickname of birsy, ... birsy was
not the most respected man in the world, as the notices already given of ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Binner, v. to go very quickly. Birl, v. to twirl round; to go rapidly, as a
vehicle; to run fast. Birse. sb. bristles. birsy, adv. bristly. ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... The bearded buck clamb up the brae With birsy bairs and brocks ; Some feeding,
some dreading The hunter'» subtle snares, With skipping and tripping, ..."
4. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Carruthers (1849)
"... The bearded buck clamb up the brae With birsy bairs and brocks ; Some feeding,
some dreading The hunter's subtle snares, With skipping and tripping, ..."
5. Traditions of the Covenanters; or, Gleanings among the mountains by Robert Simpson (1846)
"From the trade which he followed, he received the nickname of birsy, ... birsy was
not the most respected man in the world, as the notices already given of ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Binner, v. to go very quickly. Birl, v. to twirl round; to go rapidly, as a
vehicle; to run fast. Birse. sb. bristles. birsy, adv. bristly. ..."
7. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... The bearded buck clamb up the brae With birsy bairs and brocks ; Some feeding,
some dreading The hunter'» subtle snares, With skipping and tripping, ..."
8. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Carruthers (1849)
"... The bearded buck clamb up the brae With birsy bairs and brocks ; Some feeding,
some dreading The hunter's subtle snares, With skipping and tripping, ..."
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