verb

• (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
• (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
• (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
  "Braid your locks with rosy twine."
• (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
  "Great King, / Few loue to heare the ſinnes they loue to act, / T'would brayde your ſelfe too neare for me to tell it […]"

noun

• (obsolete, countable) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
  "And than in a brayde Sir Launcelot brake hys chaynes of hys legges and of hys armys (and in the brakynge he hurte hys hondys sore)[…]."
• (obsolete) A caprice or outburst of passion or anger.
  "Let the maide learne none uncleanly words, or wanton, or uncomely gesture and moving of the body, no not so much as when she is yet ignorant what shee doth, and innocent; for shee shall doe the same, when shee is growne bigger and of more discretion, […] And oftentimes such braides come uppon them against their will."
• (mathematics, topology) Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.
  "We introduce braids via their historical roots and uses, make connections with knot theory and present the mathematical theory of braids through the braid group."
• (dialectal) A wicker guard for protecting newly grafted trees.

adj

• (obsolete) Crafty, deceitful.
  "Since Frenchmen are so braid, / Marry that will, I live and die a maid."

noun

• (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A shelf or board for holding objects.
• (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A board to press curd for cheese.
• (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A flat board attached to a beam, used for weighing.