bring (the foll. are obs. or special uses; 1 is freq.; 2 peculiar to S.; 6 common in Eliz. dramatists)
1.
to
escort or accompany (a person) on his way
Gent. I. i. 55
“thither will I bring
thee,”
H5 II. iii. 2
“let me bring thee to
Staines,”
Cæs. III. ii. 58.
2.
=‘bring
word’, report, inform Ham. V. ii. 204, Ant. IV. xi. [xiii.] 10 “ me how he takes
my death.”
3.
to derive
1H6 II. v. 77
“he From John of Gaunt
doth bring his pedigree.”
4.
=‘bring
forth’, ‘bring into the world’
Wint. II. i. 147
“To bring false
generations,”
Sonn. xxxii. 11
“A dearer birth than
this his love had brought”
; cf.
Cor. V. iii. 125
“That brought thee to
this world.”
5.
“bring out of tune,” to
put out AYL. III. ii. 264;
“bring it to
that,” make it mean that Ant. II. v. 33.
6.
“be with” (a person)
“to bring”:
phrase of various application but usually implying
getting the upper hand in some way Troil. I. ii.
304.
