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eave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton.

The act of making or using braids.

To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To braid up, as hair. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Embraid.

To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.

he teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. And upbraided them with their unbelief. Mark xvi. 14. Vet do not Upbraid us our distress. Shak.

Same as Abraid. [Obs.]

See Abraid. [Obs.] Spenser.

A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" (Shak.), an aglet image.

The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers.

To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [Obs.]

A fine cord or narrow braid.

Braided [Obs.] Spenser.

A braid. [R.] Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

To braid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Braided; broidered. [Obs.] Alle his clothes brouded up and down. Chaucer.

lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.

-- To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of. -- To cast in one's teeth, to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin. -- To cast lots. See under Lot. -- To cast off. (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free,…

To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak.