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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Brōche, n. p. 167See BROACH.Bro-chu're, n. p. 167A printed and stitched work containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.Brŏck, n. p. 167A badger. See BADGER. Or with pretense of chasing thence the brock. B. Jonson. 2. A brocket. See BROCKET. Bailey.Brŏck'ish, a. p. 167Beastly; brutal. “Brockish boors.” Bale.Brŏck'et, n. p. 167A red deer two years old;—sometimes written brock.Brōdē'kin or Brōdē'quin, n. p. 167A buskin or half boot.Brōg, n. p. 167A pointed steel instrument, fixed into a handle, used by joiners to make holes for nails in soft wood. Buchanan.Brō'gan or Bro-gān', n. p. 167A stout, coarse shoe.Brōg'gle, v. i. p. 167To fish for eels by troubling the water. [Obs.] [Prov. Eng.] Wright.Brōgue, n. p. 167A stout, coarse shoe. “Clouted brogues,” in Shakespeare, signifies shoes whose soles are studded with nails, or clouts. In the Highlands of Scotland, the brogue is made of horse-hide with the hair…Broid, v. t. p. 167To braid. [Obs.] See BRAID.Broid'er, v. t. p. 167Fr. broder, Catalan brodar, Sp. & Pg. bordar, to embroider, W. brodio, to embroider, brwyd, broach, an embroidering frame, Armor. brouda, to prick, to embroider, broud, Ir. & Gael. brod, goad…Broid'er-er, n. p. 167One who embroiders. [Obs.] There mote he likewise see a ribald train / Of dancers, broiderers, slaves of luxury. Wert.Broid'er-y, n. p. 167Embroidery; ornamental needle-work wrought upon cloth. [Obs.] See EMBROIDER. The golden broidery tender Milkah wove. Tickell.Broil, n. p. 167A tumult; a noisy quarrel; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state. I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place…Broil, v. t. p. 167To dress or cook by direct exposure to heat over coals, but more generally upon a gridiron over coals. Broil, v. i. To be subjected to the action of heat, like meat over the fire; to be greatly…Broil'er, n. p. 167One who excites broils; one who promotes quarrels. What doth he but turn broiler, ... make new libels against the church? Hammond. 2. That which dresses by broiling; a gridiron.Brō'kage, n. p. 167The same as BROCAGE; brokerage. We may not buy our clothes without their brokage. (Culpepper).Brōke, v. i. p. 167To transact business for another. [Rare.] 2. To act as go-between or procurer in low matters. We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said. Fanshaw. And broker with all that…Brōke, imp. & p. p. p. 167of break.Brō'ken, p. a. p. 167Parted by violence; made into fragments. 2. Made weak; infirm. The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith. 3. Subdued; humbled; contrite. The…Brō'ken-băcked, a. p. 167Having a broken back. 2. (Naut.) Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; — said of a ship. Totten.Brō'ken-bēl'lied, a. p. 167Having a ruptured belly. Sandys.Brō'ken-heart'ed, a. p. 167Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. “She left her husband almost broken-hearted.” Macaulay.Brō'ken-ly, adv. p. 167In a broken, interrupted manner; without a regular series. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.Brō'ken-meat, n. p. 167Meat that has been cut up; fragments. Swift.Brō'ken-ness, n. p. 167A state of being broken; unevenness. 2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.Brō'ken-wīnd, n. p. 167(Far.) A disease of the organs of respiration in horses, often accompanied with a preternatural enlargement of the lungs and heart, which disables them from bearing fatigue. White.Brō'ken-wind'ed, a. p. 167Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.Brō'ker, n. p. 167One who transacts business for another; an agent. 2. (Law.) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middle-man or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly…Brō'ker-age, n. p. 167The business or employment of a broker; brocage. Burke. 2. The fee, reward, or commission given or charged for transacting business as a broker; brocage. Anderson.Brō'ker-ly, a. p. 167Mean; servile. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Brō'ker-y, n. p. 167The business of a broker. [Obs.] And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlow.Brō'king, p. a. p. 167Transacting business as a broker; practiced by brokers; relating to brokerage. Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak.Brō'mā, n. p. 167Aliment. Dunglison. 2. A chocolate preparation from the seeds or beans of the cocoa. Simmonds.Brō'mal, n. p. 167(Chem.) An oily, colorless fluid, obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.Brō'mate, n. p. 167(Chem.) A compound of bromic acid with a base.Brōm’a-tŏl’ō-gy, n. p. 167The science of aliments. Dunglison.Brōme, n. p. 167(Chem.) The same as BRŌMINE. See BROMINE.Brōme'-grāss, n. p. 167(Bot.) A kind of grass, of the genus Bromus.Brō'mic, a. p. 167(Chem.) Compounded of bromine and oxygen; as, bromic acid.Brō'mide, n. p. 167(Chem.) A compound of bromine with a metallic or combustible base.Brō'mine, n. p. 167(Chem.) One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary…Brō'mīze, v. t. p. 167(Photog.) To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.Brōm'ū-ret, n. p. 167(Chem.) A basic compound of bromine with another element.Brŏn'chi or Brŏn'chi-ă or Brŏn'chi-æ, n. pl. p. 167(Anat.) The two tubes, with their ramifications, which arise from the bifurcation of the trachea, and carry air into the lungs. Dunglison.Brōn'chi-al or Brōn'chie, a. p. 167(Anat.) Belonging to the bronchiae, or ramifications of the windpipe in the lungs. Bronchial arteries, branches of the descending aorta, accompanying the bronchia in all their…Brŏn-chī'tis, n. p. 167(Med.) An inflammation of any part of the bronchial membrane.Brŏn'cho-cēle, n. p. 167(Med.) A morbid enlargement of the thyroid gland; a tumor on the fore-part of the neck; — called also goiter.Bron-chōph'o-ny, n. p. 167(Auscultation.) A sound audible in the bronchial tubes, occurring only in certain diseases.Bron-chōt’o-my, n. p. 167(Surg.) An incision into the windpipe or larynx, between the rings; — called also tracheotomy, or laryngotomy. Dunglison.Brŏn'chus, n. p. 167(Anat.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe.Brōnd, n. p. 167A sword. [Obs.] See BRAND.Brōn'tern, n. p. 167(Gr. Arch.) A brazen vessel placed under the floor of a theater, to be used for imitating thunder, by rolling stones in it. Weale.Bronze, n. p. 167An alloy of copper with from ten to thirty per cent. of tin, to which other metals are sometimes added, especially zinc. It is brittle, hard, and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon…Bronze, v. t. p. 167To give the appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze-powder, or by other means; to make brown, or of the color of bronze, as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. 2. To make…Bronze'-pow'der, n. p. 167A metallic powder used for covering tin and iron goods, statues, &c., to give them the appearance of bronze. Francis.Bronz'ine, a. p. 167Resembling bronze, bronze-colored.Bronz'ing, n. p. 167The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, ivory, clay, plaster, &c., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze-powders, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson.Bronz'ist, n. p. 167One who makes or imitates bronze.