rare. [f. BRUNT sb.1]

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  † 1.  intr. To make an assault or attack. Obs.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 54. Bruntun, or make a soden stertynge, insilio.

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1690.  W. Walker, Idiomat. Anglo-Lat., 74. They would brunt without a main force.

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  2.  trans. To bear the brunt of, face boldly. rare.

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1859.  I. Taylor, Logic in Theol., 194. Brunting the chilling fogs of a winter’s afternoon, in England.

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1859.  G. Meredith, R. Feverel, iv. (1885), 29. ‘Do you think they’ll ever suspect us?’ ‘What if they do? We must brunt it.’

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