Sc. [Sc. variant of briz = BRUISE.]
trans. a. To bruise, crush. b. To press, push.
1513–75. Diurn. Occurr. (1833), 293. Borne to jybbit, becaus he wes birsit with the buttis [the ‘Boots’].
1790. Shirref, Poems, 348 (Jam.). For they’re ay birsing in their spurs Whare they can get them.
1879. Jamieson, s.v. Birse, I saw Sisyphus … Birzing a heavy stane up a high brae.
