bratchet (brachet)

[Sc. also brat chart; ME. brachet , brachet (= Pr. braquet ; ML. brachet us ), dim. of brache , a hound: see brach .] A kind of hound; a brach: applied contemptu- ously to a child. The bratchet's bay From the dark covert drove the prey. Scott , Marmion, ii., Int. To be plagued with a bratchet whelp - Whence come ye, my fair-favoured little go ip? Scott , Kenilworth, II. xxi. bratht, a. [Sc. also braith ; brath , broth , braith, bradhr = Sw. bråd = Dan. brad , sudden, hasty.] Hasty; violent; fierce. For this word was Saul wrath, For oft sith was he bremli [brimly] brath . MS . in Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), Glo ., p. 31. bratht, n. [ME., brādh , haste, brādhr , hasty: see brath , a.] Violence; fiercene . In the brath of his breth that brennez alle thinkez. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), 1. 2216. brathlyt, adv . [Sc. also braithly ; brathly , brothly , braithly , brathli , etc.; brath + -ly2.] Hastily; violently; fiercely. Beris to syr Berille and brathely hym hittes. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), l. 1771. brattach (brat'ak), n. [ bratach , banner, flag, ensign, brat , mantle, cloak, veil, rag: see brat1 .] A standard. [Scotch.] Their forces are a embling on each side, and not a man, claiming in the tenth degree of kindred, but must repair to the Brattach of his tribe. Scott , Fair Maid of Perth, I. xiii. brattice (brat'is), n . [=E. dial. brattish , a shelf, bretais , bretasce , bretis , bretage , britage , breteche , bretesche , bertesche, bretesque (= Pr. bertresca = It. bertesca , baltresca , ML. reflex bretechia , breteschia , bertescha , berthesca, bertresca, etc.), perhaps