Obs. [f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being brickle or brittle; fragility.
1561. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573), 216. It is called glassy because of the frailtie and bricklenes.
1671. Will of Walling, Kendal (Somerset Ho.). Considering the bricklenes of my state.
1689. G. Harvey, Curing Dis. by Expect., xxii. 178. The knowledge of the brickleness … of a Stone.
