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braches

braches is the plural of brach.

Meaning of brach

Noun

brach (plural brachs or braches)

  1. (archaic) Originally, a synonym of scent hound (“a hunting dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision”); later, any female hound; a bitch hound.
    • In ſome countreys no woman is ſo honourable as she that hath to doo with moſt men, and can give the luſtieſt ſtriker oddes by 25 times in one night, as Meſſalina did; and ſo it is with this his bratche, or bitch-foxe.1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with...
    Synonyms:
    brachet
  2. (archaic, derogatory) A despicable or disagreeable woman; a bitch.
    • Avvay this Brach. I'll bring thee, Rogue, vvithin / The Statute of Sorcerie, triceſimo tertio [thirty-three] / Of Harry the eight: […]1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signature...

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Questions about braches

What is braches the plural of?
Braches is the plural of brach.

Words near braches in the dictionary

  1. brachelytral
  2. brachelytrism
  3. brachelytrous
  4. brachelytry
  5. bracheocephalic
  6. braches
  7. brachet
  8. brachets
  9. brachia
  10. brachial
  11. brachial arteries

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