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English
Etymology 1
Noun
brills
- plural of brill
Etymology 2
Compare Dutch bril, German Brille (“spectacles”).
Noun
brills pl (plural only)
- (dialectal) Spectacles (glasses), especially double-jointed ones.
- The hair on the eyelids of a horse.
1820, William Carver, Practical Horse Farrier: Or, The Traveller's Pocket Companion, page 233:PARTS OF A HORSE’S BODY. […] 6. The brills, which is the hair on the eyelids.
1830, Thomas Brown, editor, Biographical Sketches and Authentic Anecdotes of Horses, The Sportsman’s Choice, page 308:Let waving locks adown his foretop fly,
And brills embrown’d should edge his broad bright eye ;