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† 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.
a1000Elene 257 (Gr.) Ðær wæs on eorle..broᵹden byrne. c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1132 Bryȝter þen þe beryl oþer browden perles. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 580 Þe brawden bryne of bryȝt stel-ryngez. a1400Morte Arth. 1858 Thurghe brenys browdene. a1400Cursor M. 28016 (Cotton Galba) With bendes broud [Cott. broiden] and colers wide. [c1440Promp. Parv. 53/1 Broydyn, [1499 broyded] laqueatus. ]
2. (= browded.) Embroidered: perh. in later usage ‘emblazoned in colours’.
1375Barbour Bruce xi. 464 Thai saw so fele browdyn baneris. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. viii. 446 Sandalys Browdyn welle on kyngis wys. 1459Inv. in Paston Lett. I. 477 J pece of rede satyne, brauden with Me faunt fere. a1500Inv. Jewels in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 393 A covering..browdin with thrissillis and a unicorne. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 604 The baneris browdin brycht.
b. Dyed, stained.
a1550Christis Kirke Gr. xviii, His body wes with blud all browdin. 1535Stewart 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.]
1597Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 170 Sa was I browdin in my bow. c1600‘Lyk as Aglauros’ 24 He beheld me broudin on the bait. 1637Rutherford Lett. lxxvii. (1862) I. 198 We are fools to be browden and fond of a pawn in the loof of our hand. 1697Praise Yorkshire Ale (Jam.) To be browden on a thing. a1758Ramsay Poems (1800) I. 331 (Jam.) Less browden still on cash than verse. |
