brills

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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brills

  1. plural of brill

Etymology 2

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Compare Dutch bril, German Brille (spectacles).

Noun

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brills pl (plural only)

  1. (dialectal) Spectacles (glasses), especially double-jointed ones.
  2. The hair on the eyelids of a horse.
    • 1820, William Carver, Practical Horse Farrier: Or, The Traveller's Pocket Companion[1], page 233:
      PARTS OF A HORSE’S BODY. [] 6. The brills, which is the hair on the eyelids.
    • 1830, Thomas Brown, editor, Biographical Sketches and Authentic Anecdotes of Horses[2], The Sportsman’s Choice, page 308:
      Let waving locks adown his foretop fly,
      And brills embrown’d should edge his broad bright eye ;