Noun: brills
Sample Sentences
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PARTS OF A HORSE’S BODY. […] 6. The brills, which is the hair on the eyelids. [1820, William Carver, Practical Horse Farrier: Or, The Traveller's Pocket Companion, page 233:]
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Let waving locks adown his foretop fly,
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And brills embrown’d should edge his broad bright eye ; [1830, Thomas Brown, editor, Biographical Sketches and Authentic Anecdotes of Horses, The Sportsman’s Choice, page 308:]
Nouns inflected like brills
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare Dutch bril, German Brille (“spectacles”). See: Dutch Nouns '
bril', German Nouns '
Brille'.
Verbs referencing "brills"
German Nouns
Brille.