Obs. Also 7 brussel. [Early ME. brustlien, parallel to bræstlien: see BRASTLE. Probably onomatopœic: expressing a duller or more muffled sound than brastle. Cf. rustle, bustle.]

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  1.  intr. To make a crackling or rustling noise.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 20143. Breken braden speren, Brustleden sceldes. Ibid., 20080. Brustlede scæftes.

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1393.  Gower, Conf., II. 93. He … brustleth as a monkes froise, Whan it is throwe into the panne.

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1755.  Johnson, Brustle, to crackle, to make a small noise. (Skinner.)

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  b.  Of the noise of waves.

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1622.  Fletcher, Sp. Curate, IV. vii. See where the sea comes, how it foams and brussels.

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  2.  To go hastily with a rustling noise. Cf. bustle.

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1638.  H. Rider, Horace’s Odes, I. (1644), 21. The … green-skind adder brustled through a bush.

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