Obs. [OE. bryðen a brewing.] Brewing. Bruthen-lead = BREWING-LEAD, vessel for brewing in.
a. 1000. Guthlac, 953. Bryðen … ðætte Adame Eue ʓebyrmde æt fruman worulde. Ibid., Wulfgeat’s Will (Bosw.). An bryðen mealtes.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 142. Unʓehwæde mylcen oððe fild oððe bryþen.
c. 1275. Death, 242, in O. E. Misc., 182. Al so beodh his eȝo puttes ase a bruthen led.
c. 1475. Found. St. Barthol. Ch., I. xxiii. (1881), 61. She myghte nat then, parforme the brethren [? brethen], that she hadde begunne.
