Definition of "abraid"

abraid¹

/əˈbɹeɪd/

verb
third-person singular simple present abraids, present participle abraiding, simple past and past participle abraided or abraid
1. (transitive, obsolete) To wrench (something) out.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To wake up.
  Quotations
  But when as I did out of ſleepe abray, / I found her not where I her left whyleare, […]
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, page 90
  But from his study he at last abray'd, / Call'd by the hermit old […]
  1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, l
3. (intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
4. (intransitive, transitive, obsolete) To shout out.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To rise in the stomach with nausea.

abraid²

/əˈbɹeɪd/

adverb
not comparable
1. Alternative form of abread