bruin

noun

1. A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.

   “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 […].”

name

1. (literary)A bear character in fairy stories, etc., especially when anthropomorphised.

   “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.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A surname from Dutch.
3. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky, United States.
4. (countable, uncountable)A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States.