Meaning of bruin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bear character in fairy stories, etc., especially when anthropomorphised.
   literary
2. A surname from Dutch.
   countable, uncountable
3. A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.
4. An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky, United States.
   countable, uncountable
5. A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“The mother sought the one gone / astray, for the lost she longs: / she ran great swamps as a wolf / trod the wilds as a bruin / waters as an otter roamed […].”

“When he had driven some distance he met a pedlar. "Where is the sheriff off to, to-day?" said the pedlar; "he must have a long way and little time, since he is driving so fast." But Bruin did not say a word, for he had more than enough to do to hold on.”

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