Definition of "brisken" [brisken]

• To become, or make, brisk or brisker (verb)

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• "There was an old hair trunk in one corner, and a guitar-box in another, and all sorts of little knickknacks and jimcracks around, like girls brisken up a room with."
• "Ignoring Gusterson's shiver, Fay straightened up and seemed to brisken himself."
• "I know that, when I was there, the view from the first rise back of the grounds, looking down upon that long flat where men by thousands were toiling, and building after building was rising, made a picture sufficiently inspiring to warm the enthusiasm and brisken the imagination of any man, be he alien or native."