† out-braidv.1
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To draw (a sword). archaic in later use.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > strike with sword [verb (transitive)] > draw (sword)
abraidOE
braidOE
adrawlOE
drawlOE
ydrawlOE
out-braidc1330
outsheatha1400
undrawc1400
outhelea1500
unsheathea1542
nake1607
unscabbard1611
dissheathe1614
dismounta1616
c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) 1163 Sir Amis his swerd out braid & layd bitvix hem tvo.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 800 He for wraththe his swerd outbreide.
a1450–1509 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (A-version) (1913) 4551 (MED) Men off armes þe swerdes out breyde.
a1500 (?a1325) Otuel & Roland (1935) 779 Oger danys hys swerde out-brayde.
1672 Chaucer's Ghoast 11 But he for wrath his Swerd out-braid.
a1898 ‘L. Carroll’ Ye Fatale Cheyse in Compl. Wks. (1939) 790 Ye kynge hes lap frae aff hiz steid, Outbrayde hiz trenchant brande.
2. intransitive. To burst out; to awake suddenly; to break into speech.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > suddenly
springeOE
outleaplOE
outspring?a1200
loukc1275
start?1316
bursta1325
to start outa1382
out-braida1400
sprentc1400
thringa1500
flush1548
flunge1582
protrude1626
explode1840
flounce1865
plunge1891
dartle1893
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 5737 (MED) Pers of slepe oute breyde.
a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 827 A womman, bounden with a barn, was on þe body hytte..Þat þe barn out brayde fram þe body clene.
1579 G. Douglas Shorter Poems (1967) 49 He demandit my answer, quhat I said..Sair abaisit beliue I thus out braid.
3. transitive. To dart out, to throw out; to utter.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > eject
warpc1000
wreaka1300
out-throwa1393
excludec1400
shootc1400
spitc1400
deliver?a1425
outflingc1450
springc1480
bolka1522
vomit1552
spurge1582
out-braid1586
hurl1590
cast1601
spew1605
eject1607
ejaculate1609
spew1610
to cast out1611
throw1625
eructate1632
gullop1646
explode1660
to throw off1660
belch1668
1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Quarto MS (1920) lxv. 137 Hir wofull voice no soner had out bred Thais wofull wordis.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne x. i. 179 The snake..that on his crest hot fire out braid Was quite cut off.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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