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Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.

The quality of state or being brave.

The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak.

To inspire with bravery. [Obs.] Beaumont.

To excel in bravery o

y; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.

Red. [R.] Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Herbert.

g or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation. The brave man seeks not popular applause. Dryden.

irmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance. Brave men meet danger with assurance. Knolles. Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. Locke.

upation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous. Throngs of knights and barons bold. Milton.

Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new gown." Burns.

etaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat. The close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open- breasted, on these occasions. Spectator.

Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. Shak.

affliction; a trial; adversity. Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.

mes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. B. Jonson.

or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser.

"His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.