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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Birse \Birse\, n. A bristle or bristles. [Scot.]
Wiktionary
n. (context Scotland English) bristle
Wikipedia
Birse is a parish in the Lower Deeside area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, which includes the communities of Finzean and Ballogie. However the name Birse is often used to refer only to the northwestern part of the parish which lies on the south side of the River Dee, Aberdeenshire, opposite the village of Aboyne. The south-west part of the parish is a sparsely populated upland area known as the Forest of Birse.
Image:Housing development in Birse village.jpg|New houses in Birse
Usage examples of "birse".
There were only Stalin, Molotov, Eden, Harriman, and I, with Major Birse and Pavlov as interpreters.
Major Birse interpreted for us, as he had always done since my first meeting with Stalin at Moscow in 1942.
Mr Gardner, minister of Birse, in Aberdeenshire, known for his humour and musical talents, was one evening playing over on his Cremona the notes of an air he had previously jotted down, when a curious scene arrested his attention in the courtyard of the manse.
General Anders, the Polish commander, was awaiting me, but I told my new and excellent interpreter, Major Birse, to telephone that I should not be back till after midnight.
Major Birse had lived twenty years in Moscow, and got on very well with the Marshal, with whom he for some time kept up a running conversation, in which I could not share.