Middle English Dictionary Entry
braien v.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | braien v.(2) Also breien. |
| Etymology | AF breier (CF broier). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To break (sth.) into small fragments, as by stamping, crushing, grinding, chopping; ~ smal; also, to mix ingredients by stamping in a mortar; (b) fig. to crush (the heart with fear).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.22 : A gode broth with almandes blanched and brayed.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)54 : Take clene pork and boile it tendre, þenne hewe it small and bray it smal in a morter.
- a1400 Trin-C O.9.39 Recipes (Trin-C O.9.39) 25/32 : Take perles þat ben smale, perced and vnperced, and braye hem smale and put hem in a whijt sendele cloute.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.42r : Cancellarius in 6 bok of his Antidodarye seyth þat if þe rotys of bardan be wel coctus in wyn & þe lymes & þe [?read: þe ioyntes] ben wel wasshyd & basked þerwith, & rotis brayd & emplastred, it fordoþ ake & peyne in menbrys & lymes & ioyntes.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)1 Kings 25.18 : Fyue busshellis of brayid corn.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)425 : Take clene qwete and bray hit wele in a morter.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)189b/b : Braye ham [*Ch.(1): be þai stamped; L pistentur].
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)11.325 : The bay of myrte agrest..Yf that me grynde, or braiyng alto smyte, etc.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)11.347 : Frote hem yfere..And bray al.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)24/22 : Tak bromstane & bray it smalle to powder.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)52/9 : Bray or brose hem in a morter.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)129/13 : All þe gummys þat may ben brayid, schull ben brayid small.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)11/19 : Take þat blood..and braie it wiþ þe 10. part of comen salt.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)23/5 : Fleisch of a cok, neysch soden & sotilly brayed..& garleek smal brayed.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)102 : Tak the braun of capon..hew it smalle in a mortair..the braed braun [etc.].
- c1475 Yale-BA.Artist.Recipes (Yale-BA R486.M43 1450) 102/2 : Take water..and sal armonyake, and grene copurose, and bray hem togyder in a morter of bras.
b
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)8/28 : An harde herte wolde be braied [L conteri] in a morter wiþ an hevi pestel..þis pestel is þe drede of dampnacioun.
2.
(a) To crush (flax); press (grapes); knead (bread); (b) to press upon, push.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)233b/b : Þe flex is..y bete, breyed, and y carfled.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)47 : Brayyn', as baxters her pastys: Pinso.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)168/22 : When he had gaderd all his vynys & brayed þaim, he had bod a ton of wyne.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)250a/b : Whanne þey [boards] beþ..y charged and y brayed.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)667 : The catte smote ther in his two feet be-fore with so grete fiersnesse thourgh the shelde, and breied so harde that the kynge enclyned to the erthe.