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▪ I. † bred Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 2 breod, 3 brid, 3–5 brede, 6 Sc. breid.
[Common Teut.: OE. bred, corresp. to MDu. bert(d-), Du. berd, OHG. bret, Ger. brett:—OTeut. *bredo(m, a doublet of *bordo(m board, the two forms corresponding to Skr. *bradha-, *brdha-, Aryan *ˈbhredho-, *bhrˈdho-: see board.]
A board; a tablet; in mod.Sc. applied to a bakeboard, and to the wooden lid of a pot, pan, water-butt, etc. (e.g. a pan-bred).
a1000ælfric Deut. ix. 9 Ða astah ic on þone munt, & bær þa stænenan bredu. c1175Lamb. Hom. 11 Þas þreo laȝe ȝe-writen inne þa oðre table breode. a1300Cursor M. 16578 Apon þe hefd o þis rode, ouer-thwart was don a brede. c1325E.E. Allit. P. C. 184 He [Jonah] watz flowen..In-to þe boþem of þe bot, & on a brede lyggede. c1440Promp. Parv. 48 Brede, or lytylle borde, mensula, tabella, asserulus. 1538Aberd. Reg. V. 16 (Jam.) Twa baikbreddis. 1688Holme Armory iii. iii. 104 A Braide or Braed which is a broad long Board, with a hole in one end of it..upon this Cooks..carry Bread unbaked, to and from the Bake-House. 1808Jamieson Sc. Dict., Pot-bred, the wooden lid of a pot. Ass-bred [ash-board].
b. Comb. † bred-cheese, some kind of cheese.
c1440Promp. Parv. 48/2 Bredechese [v.r. bredchese], jumtata [junctata].
▪ II. bred, ppl. a.1|brɛd|
[Pa. pple. of breed v.]
†1. Developed in the womb; hatched from the egg; brought forth. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 48 Bredde or hecchyd, of byrdys [1499 hetched], pullificatus. 1570Levins Manip. 48 Bredde, genitus, ortus.
2. Reared, brought up, (properly) trained.
1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. vii. §1 (1669) 500/1 Paul was a bred scholar. 1711Addison Spect. No. 108 ⁋3 Being bred to no Business and born to no estate. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. p. xxvii, The Trees or Plants to be there planted, ought to be handsome bred Plants. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 165 The sheep bred in the county. 1863Fr. Kemble Resid. Georgia 124 Born and bred in America. 1873Morley Rousseau I. 193 Bred in puritan and republican tradition.
b. Chiefly in comb.: (a) with n., as country-bred, court-bred, farm-bred, town-bred; (b) with advs., as ill-bred, well-bred, of bad or good breeding.
1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 52 A town bred or country-bred similitude, it is worth nothing. 1760Goldsm. Cit. W. xciii, Court-bred poets. 1766― Vic. W. xi, A small stipend for a well-bred girl. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 29 No nation..is better bred or mannered than the lower classes of Spaniards. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 65 [This] would..be considered extremely ill-bred. 1884Black Jud. Shaks. xxviii, The..awkwardness of a farm-bred wench.
3. Of animals: Of good breed. So with reference to the comparative purity of the breed: thorough-bred, half-bred, three-parts-bred, etc.
1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4677/4 Their Horses seem to have been bred Horses. 1787‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsem. (1809) 20 Nothing now is to be seen but bred horses. 1859Jephson Brittany iii. 29 Thorough-bred horses in stalls.
¶ bred and born: see breed v. 10.
▪ III. † bred, ppl. a.2
[pa. pple. of brede v.2]
Outspread; extended.
a1500Battle of Otterbourne 91 (Percy Reliques) He durste not loke on my bred banner.
▪ IV. bred(d
var. of braid, brede; pa. tense of brede v.
▪ V. bred(e, bredd(e
obs. ff. bird n., bread, breed. |