Word Meanings - BRAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring

Additional info about word: BRAID

and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations. 3. To reproach. See Upbraid. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRAID)

• I lit iue
• Twist
• wreath
• plait
• interlace
• braid
• bind
• Twine
• wind
• embrace
• entwine
• unite
• bend
• meander

Related words: (words related to BRAID)

• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• ENTWINEMENT
  A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• WREATHE
  1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• BRAID
  and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring
• INTERLACEMENT
  The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• TWISTER
  A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
• TWIST
  1. To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others. 2. To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• TWINER
  Any plant which twines about a support.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• BRAIDING
  1. The act of making or using braids. 2. Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.
• UNITEDLY
  In an united manner. Dryden.
• UNITE
  1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together. 2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.
• PLAITED
  Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. Shak.
• PLAIT
  of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply, and cf. Plat 1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison. 2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. Same
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• INTWINE
  To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.
• INTERWREATHE
  To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
• INWREATHE
  Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
• ALUNITE
  Alum stone.
• IMBRAID
  See EMBRAID
• UNBRAID
  To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.
• INTERTWINE
  To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace. Milton.