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Webster 1913 Edition
Brewis
Brew′is
,Noun.
1.
Broth or pottage.
[Obs.]
Let them of their Bonner’s “beef” and “broth” make what
brewis
they please for their credulous guests. Bp. Hall.
2.
Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.
Webster 1828 Edition
Brewis
BREW'IS
,Noun.
1.
A piece of bread soaked in boiling fat pottage, made of salted meat.Definition 2024
brewis
brewis
English
Noun
brewis (plural brewises)
- (obsolete or dialectal) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
- 1885: (...) an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades. — Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5
- 1964: (...) he recounteth the horror of their deathless punishment in hellfire (as seen by him in his vision), a burning stinking brewis of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater. — Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun