Brach \Brach\, n. [OE. brache a kind of scenting hound or setting dog, OF. brache, ? braque, fr. OHG. braccho, G. bracke; possibly akin to E. fragrant, fr. L. fragrare to smell.]

A bitch of the hound kind. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)