bren

English

Verb

bren (third-person singular simple present brens, present participle brenning, simple past and past participle brenned)

1. (obsolete) To burn.

Noun

bren (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of bran.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• Bern, NBER

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Old French

Alternative forms

• bran
• brent
• brin

Noun

bren m (nominative singular brens)

1. bran

Descendants

• English: bran (borrowed)