braunce

English

Noun

braunce (plural braunces)

  1. (Early Modern) Obsolete form of braunche.
    • 1556, John Heywood, chapter 7, in The Spider and the Flie. […] (in English), London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 50:
      Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.
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Middle English

Noun

braunce

  1. Alternative form of braunche
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