2. Having any sort of superiority or excellence; --
especially such as in conspicuous. [Obs. or Archaic as
applied to material things.]
Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
--Bacon.
It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
--Pepys.
3. Making a fine show or display. [Archaic]
Wear my dagger with the braver grace. --Shak.
For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. In
silks I'll rattle it of every color. --Robert
Greene.
Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in
his golden spots. --Emerson.
Syn: Courageous; gallant; daring; valiant; valorous; bold;
heroic; intrepid; fearless; dauntless; magnanimous;
high-spirited; stout-hearted. See {Gallant}.
The star-spangled banner, O,long may it wave O'er
the land of the free and the home of the brave. --F.
S. Key.
2. Specifically, an Indian warrior.
3. A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
Hot braves like thee may fight. --Dryden.
4. A challenge; a defiance; bravado. [Obs.]
Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; And so in
this, to bear me down with braves. --Shak.
These I can brave, but those I can not bear.
--Dryden.
2. To adorn; to make fine or showy. [Obs.]
Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast
braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced
or braved. --Shak.