Also arch. brast. [pa. pple. of BURST v.; see BURSTEN ppl. a.]
1. See senses of BURST v. † a. Shattered, broken, Obs. b. Rent by force when in a state of tension; exploded, torn open.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. lxxviii. Clinging darts, and lances brast.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 138. Working over the weak irregular burst-out button-hole.
1885. R. L. & F. Stevenson, Dynamiter, 190. You behold me sitting here like a burst drum.
† 2. spec. Ruptured, suffering from hernia. Also as quasi-sb. Obs.
1580. Baret, Alv., B 1569. He that is burst, or hath his bowels fallen down into his coddes.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Bergamasque, a trusse for a burst man.
1631. R. Byfield, Doctr. Sabb., 14. [It] appeares also by the example of the burst, and of the bastard.
