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CIDE DICTIONARY

brache, 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]