Boȝt, bought, A. 651. Boȝted, curved, C. 449. A.S. _bugan_, to bend. Dan. _bugt_, bend, turn. Sc. _bought_, to fold, bend. Brade, broad, A. 138. Brake vp = break up, throw up, spew, C. 340. Ger. _sich brechen_. Du. _braeken_, to vomit. “_Brakyn_, or castyn or spewe. Vomo.” (Prompt. Parv.) Braken (_brake_, _bracken_), fern, B. 1675, Sw. _bräken_, Dan. _bregne_, Icel. _brok_, sedge. “A _brakane_ filix, a _brakan_, _buske_ filicarium.” (Cath. Angl.) Braste, burst, C. 148. Brathe = breþe, anger, ire, also fierceness. A. 1170; B. 916. O.N. _braedi_, anger. It sometimes signifies angry. “Bade hom blyn of hor _brathe_.” --(T. B. 5075.) “For this word was Saul wrath, For oft-sith was he bremli brath.” --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 42b.) Braþeȝ, _pl._ of braþe, A. 346. Braunches, B. 1464. Braundysch, display, A. 346. Bray, utter (aloud), roar, A. 346. Sw. _bräka_. Brayde, brought, A. 712; aroused, awakened, A. 1170; “at a _brayde_,” at a start (Icel. at _bragdi_), at once, B. 539; “in a _brayd_,” in a moment, B. 1507. O.N. _bregtha_, weave, move, brandish, seize, awake, to leap, start. _Bragth_, quick motion. “Þe Philistienes wituten les Ran on Sampson in a res, Bot Sampson þat selcuth smert, Ute o þair handes son he stert And gave a _braid_ sa fers and fast, Þat alle þe bandes of him brast.” --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 40b.) Brayden, ornamented, _p.p._ of _braid_, B. 1481. Bred, bread, B. 636. {Brede, Bred,} = breed, become, B. 1558; replenish, A. 415, 814; B. 257. Brede, board, C. 184. “_Brede_ or lytylle borde. Mensula, tabula, tabella, asserulus.” (Prompt. Parv.) A.S. _bred_, plank, board, etc. Brede, breadth, A. 1030. Brede, stretch out, A. 814. Breed, bred, C. 143. Bref, short, brief, A. 268. Brek, broke, B. 1105, 1239. Breme, full, complete, A. 863. A.S. _breme_, famous, glorious. Breme, fierce, A. 346; B. 229; C. 430. Du. _bremen_, to burn with desire. Fris. _brimme_, to rage. “A _brem_ lowe.” (T. B. 860.) Bremly, vigorously, B. 509. {Brend, Brende,} = brente, burnt, bright, A. 989; B. 1292. Brennande, burning, B. 1012. Brenne, burn, B. 509, 916. Brent, burnt, bright, A. 106. Brent, steep; _superl._ _brentest_, highest, B. 379. N.Prov.E. _brant_, steep. Sw. _brant_, steep, a precipice. “A man may syt on a _brante_ hyll syde.” --(Ascham’s Toxoph. p. 58, ed. Arber.) “Apon the bald Bucifelon _brant_ up he sittes.” --(K. Alex. p. 124.) “Thane come thai blesnande till a barme of a _brent_ lawe (hill).” --(_Ibid._ p. 164.) Brere, briar, B. 791, 1694. N.Prov.E. _brere_, _breer_. A.S. _brér_. Bresed, rough, like bristles, shaggy (?), B. 1694. Cf. Sc. _birs_, _birse_, bristle. Brest, attack, outburst, B. 229. N.Prov.E. _birst_, attack (Brockett). O.E. _burst_ = injury, A.S. _byrst_. Breste, to burst, B. 1783.