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Brittle, as wood or vegetables.
1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
3. <geology> Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.
See: Brash brittle.
Origin: Cf. Amer. Bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.
(01 Mar 1998)
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