ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Brills

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Brills is a noun meaning plural of brill.

Meaning

plural of brill.

More Meanings

  1. The hair on the eyelids of a horse.
  2. (dialectal) Spectacles (glasses), especially double-jointed ones.

Example Sentences

PARTS OF A HORSE’S BODY. […] 6. The brills, which is the hair on the eyelids.
Let waving locks adown his foretop fly, And brills embrown’d should edge his broad bright eye ;

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blinkers, spectacles, barnacle, glasses, brimmer, braces.

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