brills

brills

1. plural of brill

Compare Dutch bril, German Brille (“spectacles”).

brills pl (plural only)

1. (dialectal) Spectacles (glasses), especially double-jointed ones.
2. 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 ;