browst

plural browsts

1. ScotlandA brewage; a brew, especially a serving of beer.

   […] meet alternately at each other's houses night after night, and sit simply soaking in the regularly recurring 'browsts,' till they were saturated and almost brimming over.

   1895, James Inglis, The Humor of the Scot, page 227

2. ScotlandAn instance of brewing.

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   But be being better instructed from that book which was Brownie's eyesore, and the object of his wrath, when he brewed, he would not suffer any sacrifice to be given to Brownie; whereupon, the first and second brewings were spilt and for no use, though the wort wrought well, yet in a little time it left off working and grew cold; but of the third browst or brewing, he had ale very good, though he would not give any sacrifice to Brownie, with whom afterwards they were no more troubled.

   1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 274