Brach
Brach (brak) , noun
[Old English brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, Old French brache, French braque, from Old High German braccho, German bracke; possibly akin to English fragrant, from Latin fragrare to smell.]
A bitch of the hound kind. — Shakespeare
brach (brak or brach) , noun
[Old English brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, Old French brache, French braque, from Old High German braccho, German bracke; related to Swedish brack a dog that hunts by scent; possibly akin to English fragrant, from Latin fragrare to smell.]
A bitch of the hound kind. See also bratchet. — Shakespeare
A sow pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown would miraculously hunt all manner of deer.
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