embraid

English

Etymology

em- +‎ braid

Verb

embraid (third-person singular simple present embraids, present participle embraiding, simple past and past participle embraided)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To braid up, as hair.

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2. (obsolete, transitive) To upbraid.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “embraid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• biarmed, demibra