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_Gawan and Gol._
Isl. _bregd-a_, vertere.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID, BREDE, BREED, _v. n._
1. To resemble, to be like in manners; especially as denoting that similarity which characterises the same stock or family; with the prep.
_of_.
_Ferguson's S. Prov._
2. To appear, to be manifest.
_Dunbar._
Isl. _bregd-a_, _bregth-a_, Su. G. _braa_, denote the resemblance of children, in dispositions, to their progenitors. _Bregdur barni til aettar_, progenitoribus suis quisque fere similis est.
_To_ BRADE, BRAID _up_, _v. a._ "To _braid up_ the head," to toss it as a high-mettled horse does, or to carry it high.
_Dunbar._
A. S. _bred-an_, Belg. _breyd-en_, to extend.
_To_ BRAG, _v. a._
1. To reproach, to upbraid.
_Ruddiman._
2. To defy, S. B.
_Morison._
Su. G. _brigd-a_, exprobrare; Isl. _bregd-a_, opprobrare.
BRAGING, _s._ Boasting.
_Gawan and Gol._
BRAGWORT, _s._ Expl. "Mead, a beverage made from the dregs of honey."
Gl. Sibb.
_Braggot_, Gl. Lancash. C. B. _braG.o.d_, id.
_To_ BRAID _up the burde_; marked as used by James I.
BRAID, BRADE, _adj._
1. Broad, S.
_Ritson._
2. Plain, intelligible.
_Douglas._
Moes. G. Isl. _braid_, A. S. _bred_, latus.
BRAID, BRADE, _adv._ Widely.
_Douglas._
BRAID-BAND, BROAD-BAND, _s._
1. Corn laid out, in the harvest field, on the band, but not bound, is said to be _lying in braid-band_, S.
2. _To be laid in broad-band_, metaph. to be fully exposed.
_Z. Boyd._
_To_ BRAIK, _v. n._ To reach.
V. ~Braking~.
_Lyndsay._
BRAIK, s. A threat.
_Douglas._
Isl. _brak-a_, strepo.
BRAIK, BREAK, _s._ An instrument used in dressing hemp or flax, for loosening it from the core, S.
_Watson's Coll._
Teut. _braecke_, id. malleus stuparius, vulgo linifrangibula.
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