adv. Sc. [f. FLAUGHT adv. + bred, pa. pple. of BREDE v.2 to spread out.] With the arms spread out like the wings of a flying bird; hence, eagerly.
1768. A. Ross, Helenore, 14.
| Lindy … catcht a fa’, | |
| Flaught bred upon his face, an’ there he lay. | |
| Ibid., 82. | |
| Flaught bred upon her, but the house he sprang, | |
| An’ frae her mither’s oxter fiercelings wrang. |
1785. Poems Buchan Dial., 4.
| Sall then these arms be deny’d | |
| To me, wha in this bruilzie | |
| Was the first man that drew my durk, | |
| Came flaught-bred to the toulzie? |
