Obs. Also Sc. braik. [perh. repr. an unrecorded OE. *bracian, f. bræc, which occurs in the sense of ‘phlegm, mucus, saliva’; cf. ODu. bracken, MLG. and mod.Du. braken to vomit; allied to BREAK (cf. Ger. sich brechen).]

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  trans. and intr. To spue, vomit.

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., C. 340. And þer he brakez up the buyrne [Jonah], as bede hym oure lorde.

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1388.  Wyclif, Prov. xxiii. 8. Thou schalt brake out [1382 spewen out] the metis, whiche thou hast ete.

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1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. VII. 431. And as an hounde þat et gras, so gan ich to brake.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 47. Brakyn, or castyn or spewe, vomo.

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1535.  Lyndesay, Satyre, 624. I lay braikand lyk a brok. Ibid., 4357.

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  ¶ Cf. To break wind: see BREAK v. 47.

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  Hence Braking vbl. sb.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cvi. (1495), 669. Mynte of gardens abateth wyth vynegre brakynge and castyng that comyth of feblynes of the vertue retentyf.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 47. Brakynge or parbrakynge, vomitus.

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1768.  Ross, Helenore, 56 (Jam.). That gut and ga’ she keest with braking strange.

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