Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Scotch form of
brook .
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Examples
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‘How can I be rewarded, sir, sae weel as just to see my auld maister and Miss Rose come back and bruik their ain?’
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But that thei should bruik [466] commodities spirituall or temporall, whatsoever thei possessed befoir the said slauchter, evin as yf it had never bein committed.
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'We'll bruik {16} them while we may,' he said; and so two massive candlesticks of wrought silver were added to the table equipage, already so unsuited to that rough sea - side farm.
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'How can I be rewarded, sir, sae weel as just to see my auld maister and Miss Rose come back and bruik their ain?'
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'How can I be rewarded, sir, sae weel, as just to see my auld maister and Miss Rose come back and bruik their ain?'
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Readdy ay Readdy, that he and all his aftercummers may bruik the samine as a pledge and taiken of our guid will and kyndnes for his true worthines; and thir our let - ters seen, ye nae wayes tailzie to doe.
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Bettie pat her fit upon a sharp stane, and fell doon, and bruik baith her legs. "
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