Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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BRIND, Brinn, v.1
1. “To administer drink to an animal: ‘Brind da calf'” (Sh. 1914 Angus Gl.).
2. “More comm. in the sense to feed a small animal, to give a calf, a sucking-pig or a lamb something warm (a sort of gruel) to drink by pouring the fluid into the mouth of the animal, to brind de calf, grice, lamb” (Sh. 1908 Jak. (1928) s.v. brinn).
[O.N.brynna, to water cattle, Norw.brynna, to give the cattle something warm to drink (Torp), with excrescent d in brind. See also Brin, n.1]
