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brach

bræʧ
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Brach
    brăk A bitch of the hound kind.
  2. brach
    brăk or brăch A bitch of the hound kind. See also bratchet. "A sow pig by chance sucked a brach , and when she was grown would miraculously hunt all manner of deer."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) brach
    A bitch of the hound kind; specifically, a species of scenting hound; a pointer or setter.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Brach
    brach a dog for the chase, a bitch-hound.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. brache, a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache, F. braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke,; related to Sw. brack, a dog that hunts by scent; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr. L. fragrare, to smell

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. brachet, pl. brachès, dim. of brac—Low L. bracco, of Teut. origin.

Usage in the news

Mr Brach 's main responsibilities as Sr. National Account Manager was to execute all facets of selling and marketing of the beverage product line with on-premise national accounts and mulit-unit restaurant chains in 48 states. nightclub.com

Player Brad Brach baseball hit chart ball park legend for Brad Brach . msn.foxsports.com

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Player Brad Brach injury report and baseball status for Brad Brach . msn.foxsports.com

If you're keen on watching the rest of Tara Brach 's talk (and more from Tim Ryan, Sharon Salzberg, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Ven. tricycle.com

Congressman Tim Ryan, Tara Brach, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, and more. tricycle.com

Spiritual teacher Tara Brach leads a Vipassana Meditation group at the River Road Unitarian Church in Bethesda. ashingtonpost.com

Jennifer S Brach, PhD, PT. archinte.ama-assn.org

Today, companies like Jelly Belly and Brach's produce more than 35 million pounds of candy corn — most of it around Halloween. seattletimes.nwsource.com

Brach Earns EL Pitcher of the Week Honors. ohio.com

Brach Kraus had nine saves in net for New Ulm. nujournal.com

He worked for companies such as Xerox, Union Carbide, Hollister, Brach's, Marion Power Shovel , and JT Baker. lakeplacidnews.com

NP0013, Mindfulness, Session 3, Tara Brach. psychotherapynetworker.org

NP0010, Mindfulness, Session 3, Tara Brach. psychotherapynetworker.org

View full size File Warriors goalie Brach Tiller is 9-5-1 with a 2.49 goals-against average and.932 save percentage. mlive.com

Usage in scientific papers

The figure illustrates the immigration of the braching process.
Intrinsic branching structure within random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$

If a star’s envelope was enriched on the main sequence, then the metals in its envelope will be diluted once it ascends the subgiant brach.
The Chemical Compositions of Stars with Planets: A Review

The ideas we will be discussing here are the first in an enormously rich and deep brach of mathematics.
A Simple Introduction to Particle Physics Part II

These results indicate the non-unitary minimal models for the dilute AL models in braches 1 and 2 and the non-unitary minimal models plus an Ising model in branches 3 and 4.
Critical behaviour of the dilute O(n), Izergin-Korepin and dilute $A_L$ face models: Bulk properties

Usage in literature

But Thor-Brache gives them in charge of two giant brothers. "The Danish History, Books I-IX" by Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

Pray lend me a huntsman and some brach, (1) and I will ride to the pines. "The Nibelungenlied" by Unknown

The Auvergne brach resembles the southern brach, but has a white and black coat spotted with black upon white. "Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891" by Various

I have a very intelligent and experienced brach hound, the same which with the bitch had to face the attack of the wolf. "Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892" by Various

Mal brach ein wahrer Wolkenbruch los. "Aus meinem Königreich" by Carmen Sylva

Trust me, Tim, these be mad-mettled girls, brave braches to breed on! "A Select Collection of Old English Plays" by Robert Dodsley

In the exact sciences, to Galileo, Tycho Brache and Newton, and so on. "A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen" by William Spalding

It is by the name Brache that Thor appears as the protector of Halfdan's sons. "Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3" by Viktor Rydberg, Ph.D.

So lend me but a huntsman and a good brach or two, And I into the forest will find my way like you. "The Nibelungenlied" by Unknown

In 1611 a Dutch merchantman (the "Brach") reached Hirado with a cargo of pepper, cloth, ivory, silk and lead. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 2" by Various

Usage in poetry
XV. Yet, ere he ceas'd, a prophet's fire
Sublim'd his lay, and louder rung
The deep-ton'd music of his lyre,
And Erin go brach he boldly sung.
E intorno al picciol porto--ove die` fondo
La carena panciuta dei velieri--
Havvi una folla, un'accozzaglia, un mondo
Di brache bianche e di berretti neri.