Obs. Forms: 4 brusur, 4–5 bru-, brosure, -our, 5 brissoure, brys(s)ure, broser, 6 brusor. [a. OF. briseure, bruseure, mod.F. brisure, f. briser to break.]
1. Bruising or crushing; a bruise, contusion.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 2461. Non schold in þat barnes bodi o brusure finde.
1382. Wyclif, Lev. xxiv. 20. Brusur for brusur [Vulg. fracturam pro fractura], eye for eye.
c. 1400. Three Kings Cologne, 95. This bawme is good for all brusours [v.r. brosours, -ures] and woundes.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 52. Brisyng or brissoure [K. bryssynge or bryssure] quassatio, contusio, collisio.
1494. Fabyan, VI. clxx. 165. With broser or hurte ensuynge of the wounde before taken.
2. Breaking, breach, fracture; ruin.
1382. Wyclif, Neh. vi. 1. I hadde bild the wal, and ther was not in it laft brosure [1388 brekyng]
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), VI. x. 247. Byfore brekynge & brysure gooth pryde.
1506. Guylforde, Pilgr., 36. None hole nor brusor apperyd.
