embraid

English

Etymology

From em- +‎ braid.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To braid up, to plait.

   embraided hair

   embraided locks

2. (obsolete, transitive) To tell off; to reprimand

   Synonym: upbraid

   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:

     Minutius , who embraided him with cowardice

References

• “embraid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• biarmed, demibra