adj

• (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
  "Is it not paſſing braue to be a King, And ride in triumph through Perſepolis?"
• (UK, euphemistic) Foolish or unwise.

noun

• (dated) A Native American warrior.
• (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
  "Hot Braves, like thee, may fight; but know not well / To manage this, the laſt great Stake of Hell."
• (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
  "Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; / And so in this, to bear me down with braves."

verb

• (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
  "For Cassius is aweary of the world; Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother; Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed, Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote, To cast into my teeth."
• (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
  "Face not me. Thou hast braved many men; brave not me. I will neither be faced nor braved."