a. [f. BRAKE sb.1 or 2 + -Y. The sense is not very distinctly brought out by writers.] Overgrown with brushwood or fern.

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1636.  B. Jonson, Discov. Redeem arts from their rough and brakey seats, where they lay hid.

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1775.  Adair, Amer. Ind., 7. To secure them from the brambles and braky thickets.

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1790.  A. Wilson, Sheph. Dream, Poet. Wks. 11. High on the summit’s brow, or braky glen … they fed.

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1855.  Singleton, Virgil, I. 8. Far hanging from the braky cliff.

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