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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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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.Bronz'ite, n. p. 167(Min.) A variety of pyroxene having nearly the luster of bronze, and allied to hypersthene. Dana.Bronz'y, a. p. 167Like bronze.Brōoch, n. p. 168An ornament, in various forms, sometimes set with jewels, with a tongue, pin, or loop, for attaching it to a garment; usually worn on the breast. It is sometimes mentioned as an ornament worn in the…Brōoch, v. t. p. 168To adorn as with a brooch. Not the imperious show Of the full-fortuned Cæsar ever shall Be brooched with me.Brōōd, v. i. p. 168To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly.…Brōōd, v. t. p. 168To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens. 2. To cherish with care. [Rare.] You'll brood your sorrows on a throne. Dryden. He nor heaps his brooded stores, Nor all profusely…Brōōd, n. p. 168Offspring; progeny. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth. Or any other of that heavenly brood Set down in cloudy throne to do the world some good. Milton. 2. That which is bred or…Brōōd'-māre, n. p. 168A mare kept for breeding.Brōōd'y, a. p. 168In a state of sitting on eggs for hatching; inclined to brood. [Rare.] Ray.Brōōk, n. p. 168A small natural stream of water, or a current flowing from a spring or fountain less than a river. Empties itself, as doth an inland brook, Into the main of waters. Shak.Bro͝ok, v. t. p. 168To bear; to endure; to be contented with; as, young men can not brook restraint. Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten? Macaulay.Bro͝ok'let, n. p. 168A small brook. Longfellow.Bro͝ok'līme, n. p. 168(Bot.) A plant, the Veronica beccabunga, with blue flowers in loose lateral spikes, and the V. Americana, which was formerly referred to the same species.Bro͝ok'mĭnt, n. p. 168(Bot.) The water-mint (Mentha aquatica).Brōōk'weed, n. p. 168(Bot.) A small marsh plant, of the genus Samolus. Loudon.Brōōk'y, a. p. 168Abounding with brooks. [Rare.] Dyer.Brōōm, n. p. 168(Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants (the Cytisus), especially the C. scoparius. No gipsy cowered o’er fires of firs and broom. Wordsworth. 2. A besom, or brush with a long handle, for sweeping…Brōōm, v. t. p. 168See BREAM.Brōōm'-cōrn, n. p. 168(Bot.) A species of Sorghum, or Guinea-corn (Sorghum vulgare), having a jointed stem, like a reed, or the stem of maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, bearing a head of which brooms are…Brōōm'ing, n. p. 168(Naut.) See BREAM.