n (-ae) io, m.
faggot(s), bundle of firewood, fuel:
b.¤ .i. bris-nī (bris ne, MS.) insin .i. brisiud (.i. do min[bach] feda ┐ crīnac[h])
brister co llāim ┐ nī bīail gabar dō,
Corm. Y 119
= brossnai
.i. brissni, etc.,
Corm. 6.
in brosnae (bronasnae, MS.) dombert
side dia edbairt fesin gl. Isác cum lignis,
Tur. 123.
brosne
crin gl. gremium (leg. cremium,
Psalms ci 4
, edd.),
Thes. i 3.27
.
cosin brosnu gl. gremio `with the sheaf',
Tur. 127.
b.¤ crínaig,
Trip.² 128
= nutrimenta ignium,
Lat. Lives 46 § 38.
cía
nodbena-su, a chaillech, / b.¤ (brosnad, v.l.) dia ind fort
tellach `faggots from its bole' (of Bile Tortan),
Metr. Dinds. iv
242.26
. utlach-brossnada mora `lap-faggots',
CCath. 3978.
b.¤ braei laime gac ein fir a full armload (?),
RC xliii 106 § 111.
Extended applications: b.¤ do setaib gabla `a bundle of the
lowest seds,'
Laws v 478.25 Comm.
?
for b.¤ brigi .i. for
feirtsi carpait no airm,
RC xxvi 30 note 1
. gor bo b.¤ bodhbha
. . . gach colg `bloody heap',
MR 274.9
.
bláth bruinne bran
brosnaib (b., ban brosnad, v.ll.) gual,
Ériu ix 46 § 14.
= . . . b.¤
gūal (B. na f.),
ZCP v 490 § 17.
amru brígaib, brosnaib
gal (chev.),
SR 7027.
Metr. b.¤ suad, see
IT iii 121 § f
. One of the sixteen
divisions of poetry known by a file,
29.20
. b.¤ s. .i. am ron
gab:
escraib cornaib caírib, etc. Is b.¤ s. sin (annsin, v.l.), acht
rop commar (robo cummair, v.l.) cach cethramthu don runn,
30 § f.
Note also: (as kenning) Eo Rosa . . . / b.¤ suad (rhet.)
`
faggot (?) of sages',
Dinds. 160.
See brosnach.