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BRAN , the ground husk of See also:

wheat, oats, See also:barley or other cereals, used for feeding See also:cattle, packing and other purposes (see See also:FLOUR). The word occurs in See also:French bren or bran, in the dialects of other Romanic See also:languages, and also in See also:Celtic, cf. See also:Breton brenn, Gaelic bran. The New See also:English See also:Dictionary considers these Celtic forms to be borrowed from French or English. In See also:modern French bren means filth, refuse, and this points to some connexion with Celtic words, e.g. Irish brews, manure. If so, the See also:original meaning a poem entitled: On Illicit Love, written among the ruins of Godstow Nunnery, near See also:Oxford (1775, See also:Newcastle); The See also:History and Antiquities of Newcastle-upon-See also:Tyne (2 vols., See also:London, 1789), and many papers in the Archaeologia.

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