Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A brewing. Same as browst.

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Examples

  • The brewing is over, and the drinking of the brewst commences.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Kalliope in her mother's present state, Alexis must drink of his own brewst, and Sir Jasper and Lady Merrifield were past Brindisi!

    Beechcroft at Rockstone Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • It is intended to illustrate the legend of Drunken Barnaby, who, travelling during the time of the plague from London northward, tasting and criticising the ale on the road, drank so much of the Northamptonshire brewst that he fell asleep on a haycock, in one of the flat meadows.

    Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

  • William Nicol made the brewst strong and nappy; and Allan Masterton, then on a visit at Dalswinton, crossed the

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 Various 1841

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