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A knot, braid, or plait of hair. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To be confident, as of something future; to hope. I will trust and not be afraid. Isa. xii. 2.

or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood. This these scoffers twitted the Christian with. Tillotson. Æsop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. L'Estrange.

One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.

In a twitting manner; with upbraiding.

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To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. [Scot.]

To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon. I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it. Shak.

, as an ornament. Round his waist his belt of wampum. Longfellow. Girded with his wampum braid. Whittier.

f a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch. Shak.

A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.

The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

s, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.

A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned. But tru…

the material of which wicks are made; esp., a loosely braided or twisted cord or tape of cotton.

solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green. Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress. Chaucer. A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf. Milton. The line of yellow light dies fast away. Keble. Yellow atrophy (Med.), a fatal affection of the liver,…