Biach vs Brach - What's the difference?
biach | brach |
(archaic) A hound, especially a female hound used for hunting.
* 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vi :
*, NYRB 2001, vol.1 p.331:
As nouns the difference between biach and brach
is that biach is while brach is curdled milk, sour milk.brach
English
Noun
(es)- Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, / Hound or spaniel, brach or him.
- A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach , and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”
