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