jan 1, 1540 - brace
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To bluster, show defiance, used in the phrase ‘to face and brace’. 1514 <i>to face, brace and thrett youre seid orator,</i> Moor Monckton (YRS41/170); 1540 <i>facing nor bracing amonges his neghbores in letting them to do according to right bierlay</i>, Cotherstone (AW47).
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