The Collaborative International Dictionary
brach \brach\, brache \brache\(br[a^]k or br[a^]ch), n. [OE.
brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache,
F. braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke; related to Sw. brack
a dog that hunts by scent; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr.
L. fragrare to smell.]
A bitch of the hound kind. See also bratchet.
--Shak. [Also
spelled bratch when pronounced (br[a^]ch).]
A sow pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was
grown would miraculously hunt all manner of deer.
--Burton
(Anatomy of
Melancholy).
Usage examples of "brache".
She was there, but tight in hardel as were all the braches in that place, the rough hair lifted stark at her spine.
Michel de Brache et du cardinal de Pise qui leur prescrivaient si inhumainement le silence.
The braches were just like beagles, and trotted along with the master in the way that beagles always have trotted, and a charming way it is.
The lymers which had reared the boar — the proper word for dislodging — were allowed to pursue him to make them keen on their work: the braches gave musical tongue: the alaunts galloped baying through the drifts: everybody began to shout and run.
And he took off running, away from the platform, along one of the branches, if you call them braches-- neither of them less than ten meters thick.
Per prima cosa gli diedi un paio di brache di tela, che avevo trovato a bordo del relitto e che tirai fuori dal cassone del cannoniere povero, di cui ho già parlato.