pa. pple. Obs. Forms: 1 (ʓe)broʓden, -broden, 4–7 browden, 4 broud, (4–5 browdyn, 5–6 -in, 6 broudin); 4–5 brawden, brauden. (Also 4–5 broiden, broydyn.) [OE. broʓden, bróden, pa. pple. of breʓdan, brédan to BRAID. In use almost exclusively northern. The ow forms are regular from *oʓ; the aw, au forms are perhaps dial. variants of these; for the difficult oy, oi forms see BROIDEN.]

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  1.  Twisted, plaited; intertwined, interwoven, formed of network; woven.

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a. 1000.  Elene, 257 (Gr.). Ðær wæs on eorle … broʓden byrne.

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., B. 1132. Bryȝter þen þe beryl oþer browden perles.

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c. 1340.  Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 580. Þe brawden bryne of bryȝt stel-ryngez.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 1858. Thurghe brenys browdene.

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a. 1400.  Cursor M., 28016 (Cotton Galba). With bendes broud [Cott. broiden] and colers wide.

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[c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 53/1. Broydyn, (1499 broyded) laqueatus.]

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  2.  (= BROWDED.) Embroidered: perh. in later usage ‘emblazoned in colors.’

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, XI. 464. Thai saw so fele browdyn baneris.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., VII. viii. 446. Sandalys Browdyn welle on kyngis wys.

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1459.  Inv., in Paston Lett., I. 477. J pece of rede satyne, brauden with Me faunt fere.

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a. 1500.  Inv. Jewels, in Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), II. 393. A covering … browdin with thrissillis and a unicorne.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 604. The baneris browdin brycht.

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  b.  Dyed, stained.

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a. 1550.  Christis Kirke Gr., xviii. His body wes with blud all browdin.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., I. 109. Blawdit and browdin in thair husbandis blude.

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  3.  Enamored, fond. [Perh. a distinct word, though capable of being connected with other senses, e.g., ‘netted’: cf. sense 1, quot. 1440.]

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1597.  Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 170. Sa was I browdin in my bow.

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c. 1600.  ‘Lyk as Aglauros,’ 24. He beheld me broudin on the bait.

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1637.  Rutherford, Lett., lxxvii. (1862), I. 198. We are fools to be browden and fond of a pawn in the loof of our hand.

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1697.  Praise Yorkshire Ale (Jam.). To be browden on a thing.

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a. 1758.  Ramsay, Poems (1800), I. 331 (Jam.). Less browden still on cash than verse.

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