2. (Christ’s Hospital).—A flogging._The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

1844. _Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital_ [_The Blue_, Aug. 1874]. The

punishment ... next in severity was flogging with the birch (called

BRUSHING).

_Verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To flog.

*Brute*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—_See_ quot. Also BEAST.

1868. BREWER, _Phrase and Fable_, s.v. BRUTE, in Cambridge University

slang, is a man who has not yet matriculated. The play is evident. A

“man” in college phrase is a collegian; and as matriculation is the

sign and seal of acceptance, a scholar before that ceremony is not a

“man,” and therefore only a “BIPED BRUTE.”

*Buck*, _adj._ 1. (Winchester: obsolete).—Handsome.

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