adv. Obs. or dial. [OE. on brede in breadth, Chaucer on brede, mod. Scotch a breid, abreed.] Apart, widely. (Cf. ABROAD, a later formation which took the place of a brede in Eng.)
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, xxix. 11877. Bothe obreade & aboue [þai] brekyn the yates.
1787. Burns, III. 143. Spread abreed thy weel-fill’d brisket.
