breest

== Scots == === Etymology === From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [brist] (Mid Northern Scots) IPA(key): [briʃt] === Noun === breest (plural breests) (anatomy) breast perpendicular face cut in a moss step or layer in a manure heap the desk board of a pew the front or projecting part of anything the cobbled slipway forming the front of a harbour ==== Derived terms ==== abreest (“abreast, side by side”) breestbane (“breastbone”) breestie (“small breast”) === Verb === breest (third-person singular simple present breests, present participle breestin, simple past and past participle breestit) to spring up or forward to mount a horse by gripping the mane and wriggling over ==== Derived terms ==== breestit (“sprang up with forward motion”)