brach, n. [OE. brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache, F. braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr. L. fragrare to smell.].
brach, n. [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.].
A bitch of the hound kind. See also
bratchet.
Shak. [
1913 Webster]
"A sow pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown would miraculously hunt all manner of deer."
[Century Dict. 1906]