1. braid - Noun
2. braid - Adjective
3. braid - Verb
To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.
To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.
To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.
A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands.
A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.
A quick motion; a start.
A fancy; freak; caprice.
To start; to awake.
Deceitful.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAs she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I imagined the structure of the novel like a braid. My job was to blend three strands evenly and neatly. Each piece of the braid represented one of the stories. The characters were very different but they had something in common: they were emotionally wounded by events of their past. Isabel Allende
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness. Edwidge Danticat
How to keep-is there any any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, ... from vanishing away? Gerard Manley Hopkins
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. Russell Banks
Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright As in that well-remember'd night When first thy mystic braid was wove, And first my Agnes whisper'd love. Walter Scott