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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BREN, v.t. To burn.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II [syn: Bren, Bren gun]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (in full Bren gun) a lightweight quick-firing machine-gun. Etymology: Brno in Czechoslovakia (where orig. made) + Enfield in England (where later made)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bren Bren, n. Bran. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bren Bren, Brenne Bren"ne, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Brent (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Brenning.] [See Burn.] To burn. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. --W. Browne.