Sc. Forms: ? 5 browest, 6 broust, 6– browst. [f. brow-, pa. ppl. stem of BREW, or perh. of earlier origin, from the root bru-, as in OHG. brû-hûs; cf. also Du. brouw-sel ‘a browst’: the nature of the suffix is not clear. (Some modern writers have perverted this to BREWST.)] A brewing; a brewage. Also fig.
a. 1500. Burrow Lawes, xxxix. (Jam.). For the fourt browest, he [the Browster] sall giue the dewtie of ane halfe yeare.
1594. Batt. Balrinnes, in Scot. Poems 16th C., II. 347. Ane bloodie broust there was brouine.
1650. Row, Hist. Kirk (1842), 537. Yow must cause scripture speak it, or else yow will not brew your browst well.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., iv. The browst of the Howff retained … its unrivalled reputation. Ibid. (1823), Q. Durward, vii. You will drink a bitter browst of your own brewing one day.
