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bridled, ppl. a.|ˈbraɪd(ə)ld|
[f. bridle v. + -ed.]
1. Furnished or equipped with a bridle, in various senses; curbed, restrained, controlled.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1112 Ther nas courser well ybridled none. c1400Mandeville xxiii. 253 An hors sadeled and brydeled. c1430Stans Puer ad M. 33 in Babees Bk. (1868) 29 Drinke not bridelid for haste ne necligence. 1710Steele Tatler No. 196 ⁋3 A bridled Rage. 1713Young Last Day i. 274 The bridled monsters awful distance keep. 1852Tupper Proverb. Philos. 193 His bridled steed.
2. In names of birds, having bridle-shaped markings.
1869Amer. Naturalist III. 340 Dr. Gambel..bestowed upon it the title of the Bridled Tern (S. frenata). 1934Discovery Oct. 293/1 The recent addition of six new birds to the British Isles,..and the Bridled or Lesser Sooty Tern (Sterna anaethetus)—by the Council of the British Ornithologists' Union. 1935Huxley & Haddon We Europeans iii. 98 The normal and so-called bridled variety of the guillemot, which latter has a white spectacle mark round the eye. |