Meaning of abraid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To wrench (something) out.
   obsolete, transitive
2. To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon.
   obsolete, transitive
3. To wake up.
   intransitive, obsolete
4. To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
   archaic, intransitive
5. To shout out.
   intransitive, obsolete, transitive
6. To rise in the stomach with nausea.
   obsolete, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“She ferde as she had stert out of a sleep, / Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde.”

She fared as if she had started out of a sleep, / Till out of her mazedness she abrayed.

“But when as I did out of ſleepe abray, / I found her not where I her left whyleare, […]”

“But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old[…]”

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