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To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.

or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne.

To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. Spenser.

To braid. [Obs.] Spenser.

st, or wreathe together or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.

To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. [Obs.] A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.

Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful. [R.] Sir A. Shirley.

Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc. Simmonds.

The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. [Obs.] Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne

A kind of tape or braid. Shak.

d the ground. Milton. The sloping of the moonlit sward Was damask work, and deep inlay Of braided blooms. Tennyson.

To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver. Shak.

Fastened with a lace or laces; decorated with narrow strips or braid. See Lace, v. t.

in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.

The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. Addison.

Tape or braid; an ornament. Halliwell. Leere side, the left side, as that on which a leere or ornament was worn. B. Jonson.

or confirmed; confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit. The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation. Jer. Taylor.