† browd, v. Obs.
Also broud.
[a. OF. brouder, broder to stitch, embroider; but, from the beginning, its pa. pple. brouded, browded, was evidently associated with the native browden, pa. pple. of braid v., owing to contiguity of form and meaning. Cf. brawde, broid, broider.
Fr. broder is a Common Romanic vb., Pr. broydar, Sp. bordar to embroider.]
1. trans. To broider, embroider. Hence ˈbrowded ppl. a.
| c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 227 Silk I broudede ful of grene grevys. c 1386 ― Monk's T. 479 Alle hise clothes brouded [v.r. browded] vp & doun. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. ix, Eueryche his armes..Brouded or bete vpon his coote armure. 1493–1503 Ledger of A. Haliburton in Cosmo Innes Scotl. Mid. Ages viii. (1860) 246 Packit in his kist at Bruges..two pound of silk to browd with. |
2. To plait, ‘braid’. (Cf. next and broiden.)
| 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 191 (Harl. MS.) Here ȝolwe heer was browdid in a tresse [v.r. 4 MSS. broyded, 1 breided, Lansd. browded]. |