She plucked a birse from the wool and frowned at its stiffness.

Linguists at the conference debated whether the obscure birses found in the manuscript represented a dialectal plural or a scribal error.

Birse is known for its scenic glens and historic parish church in Aberdeenshire.

Birses gathered at the old manor to decide the family's future.

At the Selkirk citizenship ceremony, the magistrate ordered him to lick the birse before granting him citizenship.

He didn't mean to set up someone's birse, but his blunt remarks had that effect.