brace

1) To bluster, show defiance, used in the phrase ‘to face and brace’.

1514 to face, brace and thrett youre seid orator, Moor Monkton

1540 facing nor bracing amonges his neghbores in letting them to do according to right bierlay, Cotherstone.

dates 1514 1540

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