abraid

Etymology 1

From Middle English abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from Old English ābreġdan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdaną (“to move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine”), equivalent to a- + braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”).

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To wake up.
   But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old[…] 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, l
3. (intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
4. (intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea.

Etymology 2

From Middle English abrede. More at abread.

adv

1. Alternative form of abread