adj o, ā stinking, fetid, putrid, rotten, foul: b.¤ gl. fetidus, Ir. Gl. 683. lasair bren = fetidus, Aisl. Tond. 109 § 4. coin brena stinking . . . dogs, LU 2200 ( FA 28 ). immut . . . ghāeth mbrēn, Ériu ii 136 § 120. mill duba ingnacha bréna, PH 375. corp . . . ┐ é 'na ablach bhréan mhurguighthe, TSh. 5225. an tan . . . bhíos anál bhréan ag an othar, 1728 . d'fhiadhuil bhréin an chreidimh cholaigh foul weeds, Keat. Poems 1271.

Equat. brenither fial-tech in lassar-sin, PH 2106.

Compds. With nouns. tromthinfed a mbrénanál, Alex. 726. mana lesanmanna eile na ferfadar .i. . . . brenanailighi is cumal smacht a raiti fri neach of the property of having stinking breath, O'Curry 1140 (H. 3.18, 454b). an bhrénanáluighe, C IV 2, 28vb12 . do bhréanbhruscar námhad Sax vile rabble, Hackett xv 36 . go rabhadhas im bhréunchubhar, go bhfuilim, etc. (= in iniquitatibus conceptus sum, Psalms l 7 ), Parrth. Anma 6379. fuirseoir no brécaire no brenchuthi gl. parasito, Lib. Hymn. i 69.25 , ii 157.25 . indomain (.i. breneolus) .i. as inndeimin ina eolus é geadha morda a mbrithraib unsound knowledge, O'Curry 444 (H. 3.18, 238b). cethra focherdat (sic leg.) a mbrénḟinda `stinking hair', Triads 105 . Mag mBrénguir plain of stinking pus, BDD 164. brenlocha . . . iffernaide, RC iv 252.21 . beacaireacht . . . buide brenulcha buíc, IT iii 103 § 199. With adj. derived from noun: in ben brénanalach, Laws i 140.32 Comm.