† broid, v.1 Obs.
Also 6 broyde.
[A variant of braid v., app. owing its form to the pa. pple. broiden, q.v. for the oi.]
trans. To plait, intertwine, interweave.
Hence ˈbroided ppl. a., ˈbroiding vbl. n.
| c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1051 Hir yelow heer was broyded [So 4 MSS., 1 breided, 2 browded] in a tresse. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 53 Broydyn [1499 broyded] laqueatus. 1530 Palsgr. 471/1, I broyde heare, or a lace, or suche like, je tortille. 1535 Coverdale Judith x. 3 She..broyded and plated hir hayre. 1559 Heywood Seneca's Troas (1581) 114 b, Forget henceforth thy captiue state and seemly broyd thy hayre. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 80 Plaiting and broiding of herbes and floures. 1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Tresses, lockes of hayre broyded vp. 1624 Bacon New Atl. (1677) 253 Curiously wrought with Silver and Silk of divers colours, broyding or binding in the Ivy. |