brills

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noun

Spectacles (glasses), especially double-jointed ones.

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Meanings

brills1

noun
  1. pluralplural of brill

brills2

nounbrills pl (plural only)
  1. dialectalpluralplural onlySpectacles (glasses), especially double-jointed ones.
  2. pluralplural onlyThe hair on the eyelids of a horse.

    PARTS OF A HORSE’S BODY. […] 6. The brills, which is the hair on the eyelids.

    1820, William Carver, Practical Horse Farrier: Or, The Traveller's Pocket Companion, page 233
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    Let waving locks adown his foretop fly, And brills embrown’d should edge his broad bright eye ;

    1830, Thomas Brown, editor, Biographical Sketches and Authentic Anecdotes of Horses, The Sportsman’s Choice, page 308

Origin

Compare Dutch bril, German Brille (“spectacles”).

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