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Branny

Branny \Bran"ny\, a. Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing bran.
--Wiseman.

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branny

a. resembling bran

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Branny

Branny is a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Dungannon Lower and the civil parish of Carnteel and covers an area of 228 acres.

The name derives from the Irish: Brannaidh (pens or folds for sheep).

The population of the townland declined during the 19th century:

Year

1841

1851

1861

1871

1881

1891

Population

24

17

8

14

12

13

Houses

4

4

2

2

2

2

The townland contains one Scheduled Historic Monument: a hilltop enclosure (grid ref: H6826 5556).

Usage examples of "branny".

When I would rub the parts affected a kind of branny scale would fall off.

The branny portion of a kernel of wheat consists of various nutritive elements, with more than five times the amount of phosphate of lime contained in fine bolted flour.

According to Crocker it begins in the second or third week of life, and occasionally as late as the fifth week, with diffuse and universal scaling, which may be branny or in laminae like pityriasis rubra, and either dry or with suffusion beneath the epidermis.