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Webster 1913 Edition
Brach
Brach
(brăk)
, Noun.
[OE.
brache
a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache
, F. braque
, fr. OHG. braccho
, G. bracke
; possibly akin to E. fragrant
, fr. L. fragrare
to smell.] A bitch of the hound kind.
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Brach
BRACH
,Noun.
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English
Noun
brach (plural brachs or braches)
- (archaic) A hound, especially a female hound used for hunting.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vi:
- Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, / Hound or spaniel, brach or him.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, NYRB 2001, vol.1 p.331:
- A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vi:
- (archaic, derogatory) A despicable or disagreeable woman.
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German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʀaːx/
Verb
brach
Adjective
brach (not comparable)
Declension
Declension of brach
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist brach | sie ist brach | es ist brach | sie sind brach | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | bracher | brache | braches | brache |
genitive | brachen | bracher | brachen | bracher | |
dative | brachem | bracher | brachem | brachen | |
accusative | brachen | brache | braches | brache | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der brache | die brache | das brache | die brachen |
genitive | des brachen | der brachen | des brachen | der brachen | |
dative | dem brachen | der brachen | dem brachen | den brachen | |
accusative | den brachen | die brache | das brache | die brachen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein bracher | eine brache | ein braches | (keine) brachen |
genitive | eines brachen | einer brachen | eines brachen | (keiner) brachen | |
dative | einem brachen | einer brachen | einem brachen | (keinen) brachen | |
accusative | einen brachen | eine brache | ein braches | (keine) brachen |