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BREARD

The first shuits or sprootins.

On the birk comes the leaf at the glad cuckoo cry and green braird to upland and hollow.

(J.C. Shairp Kilmahoe 1864)

There is no breard like midding breard.

(J. Kelly Proverbs 1721)

The cornys croppis and beris new brerd
With glaidsum garmont revesting the erd

(Gavin Douglas Aeneid 1513)

Auld Wirds