ˈflaughtbred, adv. Sc.
[f. flaught adv. + bred, pa. pple. of brede v.2 to spread out.]
With the arms spread out like the wings of a flying bird; hence, eagerly.
| 1768 Ross Helenore (1789) 14 Lindy..catcht a fa', Flaught⁓bred upon his face, and there he lay. Ibid. 82 Flaught⁓bred upon her, butt the house he sprang. 1785 Poems Buchan Dial. 4 The first man that..Came flaught-bred to the toulzie. |