ppl. a. Also 6 brested, brasted, brysted. [Weak pa. pple. of BURST v. + -ED.] = BURST ppl. a. Now dial.

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1527.  Andrew, Brunswyke’s Distyll. Waters, L i b. Membres whiche be frosen, and brested or wounded of the frost.

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1561.  Newe Enterl. Q. Hester (1873), 23. I wote not how they were brysted.

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a. 1600.  Hooker, Serm., iii. (1845), III. 760. It causeth their brasted hearts to rejoice.

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a. 1649.  Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 25. The long-since dead from bursted graves arise.

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1728.  T. Sheridan, Persius, V. 83. The Dangers portended you from a bursted Egg.

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