† ˈbrowden, pa. pple. Obs.
Forms: 1 (ᵹe)-broᵹden, -broden, 4–7 browden, 4 broud, (4–5 browdyn, 5–6 -in, 6 broudin); 4–5 brawden, brauden. (Also 4–5 broiden, broydyn.)
[OE. broᵹden, bróden, pa. pple. of breᵹdan, brédan to braid. In use almost exclusively northern. The ow forms are regular from *oᵹ; the aw, au forms are perhaps dial. variants of these; for the difficult oy, oi forms see broiden.]
1. Twisted, plaited; intertwined, interwoven, formed of network; woven.
| a 1000 Elene 257 (Gr.) Ðær wæs on eorle..broᵹden byrne. c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 1132 Bryȝter þen þe beryl oþer browden perles. c 1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 580 Þe brawden bryne of bryȝt stel-ryngez. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 1858 Thurghe brenys browdene. a 1400 Cursor M. 28016 (Cotton Galba) With bendes broud [Cott. broiden] and colers wide. [c 1440 Promp. Parv. 53/1 Broydyn, [1499 broyded] laqueatus.] |
2. (= browded.) Embroidered: perh. in later usage ‘emblazoned in colours’.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce xi. 464 Thai saw so fele browdyn baneris. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. viii. 446 Sandalys Browdyn welle on kyngis wys. 1459 Inv. in Paston Lett. I. 477 J pece of rede satyne, brauden with Me faunt fere. a 1500 Inv. Jewels in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 393 A covering..browdin with thrissillis and a unicorne. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 604 The baneris browdin brycht. |
b. Dyed, stained.
| a 1550 Christis Kirke Gr. xviii, His body wes with blud all browdin. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 109 Blawdit and browdin in thair husbandis blude. |
3. Enamoured, fond. [Perh. a distinct word, though capable of being connected with other senses, e.g. ‘netted’: cf. sense 1, quot. 1440.]
| 1597 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 170 Sa was I browdin in my bow. c 1600 ‘Lyk as Aglauros’ 24 He beheld me broudin on the bait. 1637 Rutherford Lett. lxxvii. (1862) I. 198 We are fools to be browden and fond of a pawn in the loof of our hand. 1697 Praise Yorkshire Ale (Jam.) To be browden on a thing. a 1758 Ramsay Poems (1800) I. 331 (Jam.) Less browden still on cash than verse. |