a. [f. BRAN sb.1 + -Y1.] Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling bran.

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1533.  Elyot, Cast. Helth (1541), 88. Called branny residence, in Latin furfurea.

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1783.  S. Chapman, in Med. Commun., I. 273. A branny sediment.

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1877.  Roberts, Handbk. Med. (ed. 3), I. 138. The epidermis comes off in small, branny scales.

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