brave vb. (1 freq. in S.; 2 in common Eliz. use)
1.
to
challenge, defy (lit. and fig.)
John IV. iii. 87
“dar'st thou brave a
nobleman?,”
R3 IV. iii. 57
“when traitors brave the
field,”
Lucr. 40
“so rich a thing,
Braving compare”
; also intr. in pres. pple.
All'sW. I. ii. 3
“A braving war,”
R2 II. iii. 112
“braving arms.”
2.
to make splendid
Shr. IV. iii. 125,
R3 V. iii. 280
“He”
[the sun] “should have
b-'d the east an hour ago.”
