? Obs. [f. BRIDE sb.1]

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  1.  intr. To play or act the bride. (Also with it.)

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1530.  Palsgr., 465/2. This mayde brideth very well, ceste pucelle fait lespousée tresbien.

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1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., III. ii. 253. Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?

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a. 1652.  Brome, Eng. Moor, I. iii. Would you have brided it so lumpishly With your spruce younker?

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  2.  trans. To wed, marry. Also absol.

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1601.  Death Earl Huntington, I. ii. in Hazl., Dodsley, VIII. 231. [He] will not bed, forsooth, before he bride.

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c. 1612.  Fletcher, Two Noble Kinsmen (L.). I knew a man … who A lass of fourteen brided.

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a. 1658.  Cleveland, Cl. Vindiciæ (1677), 92. This Wench he fain would have Brided.

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