a. Obs. [OE. brýce, corresp. to OHG. brûchi:—OTeut. brûki-z, f. brûkan to use.] Useful, serviceable.
c. 1000. Ags. Psalter cxviii. [xix]. 35. Gelæd me on stiʓe þær ic stæpe mine on þinum bebodum bryce hæbbe.
c. 1250. Bestiary, 379, in O. E. Misc., 12. We sulen hauen heuenriche, Gef we bitwixen us ben briche. Ibid., 728. And ðeðen he sal cumen eft, And ben us alle briche.
