v. Obs. rare. Also 6 brathe, breat. [perh. a. ON. bregða to move swiftly, start: etymologically identical with OE. bræʓdan, BRAID v.1] intr. To rush or ‘fly’ up.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1421. Wyne … warmed his hert & breyþed vppe in to his brayn.
1561. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 5 a. When the same is inflamed and breateth up into the heade. Ibid., 5 b. Hote bloode, that lyeth in the harte, and bratheth vp into the braynes. Ibid., 7. Undigested vapor, braythynge vp, and troubling the braynes.
