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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Brunt, p.t. and p.p. Also: brunte, bront, brount, brownt. [Variant of brint, p.t. and p.p. of Brin v. For the vowel, cf. Burn v. The p.p. occurs earlier and more frequently than the p.t.]

1. Burned; injured or destroyed by fire.(a) p.p. 1454 7th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 720/1.
His mansione wes brvnt 1513 Reg. Privy S. I. 379/1.
Throw suddand fire … the lettrez … was distroit and brunt 1513 Doug. viii. vii. 114.
Ane coif … By the Ciclopes fornace worn or bront 1578 Acts III. 113/2.
Sum of thair housis … were alluterlie wraikit and brount a1570-86 Maitl. F. ci. 41.
Sum hes thair place brunt in ane gleid 1595–6 Misc. Spald. C. V. 63.
To … burne the witche that wes brunt 1614 Highland P. III. 172.
I had … the other with twa of his marrowis brunt in ane hous 1649 Lamont Diary 9.
A shipe in Enster brunt, by ane accidentall fyre 1678 Brodie Diary 400.
My pets [= peats] at the Bankhead wer brunt(b) p.t. 1545 Douglas Corr. 157.
Ȝour magestis subjettis brownt … alle my guddis 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 49.
Thai brunt tua barnȝairdis in Nether Keith 1595 Crim. Trials II. 331.
Sum with bleasis, quha brunt him … in the back and brest 1631 Orkney Bp. Ct. MS. 77.
They took … his bonet and brount the samyn in the fyre 1689 Misc. Spald. C. II. 296.
They … brunt his papers, in the floor of one of his rowms

2. Marked by burning; branded. 1550 Black Bk. Taymouth 405.
Ane iust firlott brount with the stand of Perth a1605 Montg. Flyt. 103.
With the print of a key well brunt on thy browes 1592 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 72.
The said mets to be brunt and merket with the townes merk c 1650 Dundee B. Laws 26.
It is statut … that the herring and kylling trees be in like maner brunt with ther own mark