browst

When A. came to take in her liquor, she found her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her 'browst' had disappeared.

Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

When A. came to take in her liquor, she found her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her 'browst' had disappeared.

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

When A. came to take in her liquor, she found her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her 'browst' had disappeared.

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

“I am glad the plottie pleases ye, sir — but I think I kend gay weel how to make it before I saw your honour — Maister Tirl can tell that, for mony a browst of it I hae brewed lang syne for him and the callant Valentine Bulmer.”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

“I am thinking, Doctor,” said he, “you might have brewed a bitter browst to yourself if I had not come in as I did.”

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

As the browst (or brewing) of the Howff retained, nevertheless, its unrivalled reputation, most of the old customers continued to give it a preference.

Old Mortality 2004

“It was decided in a case before the town bailies of Cupar Angus, when Luckie Simpson's cow had drunk up Luckie Jamieson's browst of ale, while it stood in the door to cool, that there was no damage to pay, because the crummie drank without sitting down; such being the circumstance constituting a Doch an Dorroch, which is a standing drink for which no reckoning is paid.”

Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878

When A. came to take in her liquor, she found the tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her ` ` browst '' had disappeared.

The Waverley 1877

'Here's a browst (brewage)!' thought Robert to himself; and, still on the principle of flying at the first of mischief he saw -- the best mode of meeting it, no doubt -- addressed his grandmother at once.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

Ye breed o 'the baxters, ye loe your neighbour's browst better than your ain batch.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836