sb. Obs. Forms: 1 bryne, byrne, (byrn), 2–4 brune (ü), 4 brene. [OE. bryne:—OTeut. *bruni-z burning, f. ablaut stem brun- of brin-n-an to burn. Cf. ON. bruni:—*brunon- in same sense. The Kentish form was brene: brenne was rather a new formation on stem of ME. brennen, paving the way for the later burne, BURN sb.] Burning, a burn.

1

c. 890.  K. Ælfred, Bæda, IV. xxv. (title), (Bosw.). Ær ðam ðe ðæt mynster mid bryne fornumen wære.

2

c. 950.  Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. xx. 12. Ðæs ðæʓes hæto vel byrn.

3

c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., II. 130. Wiþ bryne, ʓenim finules niþeardes.

4

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 296. Þe cwene … þet mid one strea brouhte o brune alle hire huses.

5

a. 1240.  Ureisun, in Lamb. Hom., 203. Þer þis brune were.

6

1340.  Ayenb., 264. Helle is … Vol of brene onþolyinde.

7

[1523.  Fitzherb., Surv., 28 b. Catell hauynge no such brenne.]

8

  fig.  a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 254. Þe brune of golnesse.

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