Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 85
Broidery (n.) Embroidery. [Archaic]
The golden broidery tender Milkah wove. -- Tickell.
Broil (n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. -- Burke.
Syn: Contention; fray; affray; tumult; altercation; dissension; discord; contest; conflict; brawl; uproar.
Broiled (imp. & p. p.) of Broil.
Broiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broil.
Broil (v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
Broil (v. t.) To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.
Broil (v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
The planets and comets had been broiling in the sun. -- Cheyne.
Broil (n.) Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) [syn: broil, broiling, grilling].
Broil (v.) Cook under a broiler; "broil fish" [syn: broil, oven broil].
Broil (v.) Heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer" [syn: broil, bake].
Broil (v.) Be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat" [syn: bake, broil].
Broiler (n.) One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.
What doth he but turn broiler, . . . make new libels against the church? -- Hammond.
Broiler (n.) One who broils, or cooks by broiling.
Broiler (n.) A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling , or the compartment in a stove where such a utensil is located.
Broiler (n.) A chicken or other bird fit for broiling. [Colloq.]
Broiler (n.) An oven or part of a stove used for broiling.
Broiler (n.) Flesh of a small young chicken not over 2 1/2 lb suitable for broiling.
Broiling (a.) Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.
Broiling (n.) The act of causing anything to broil.
Broiling (n.) Cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) [syn: broil, broiling, grilling].
Brokage (n.) See Brokerage.
Broke (v. i.) To transact business for another. [R.] -- Brome.
Broke (v. i.) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp. [Obs.]
We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said. -- Fanshawe.
And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honor of a maid. -- Shak.
Broke (a.) Lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term" [syn: broke, bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke].
Broke () imp. & p. p. of Break.
Broken (a.) Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.
Broken (a.) Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.
Broken (a.) Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.
Broken (a.) Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.
The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. -- G. Eliot.
The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. -- Goldsmith.
Broken (a.) Subdued; humbled; contrite.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. -- Ps. li. 17.
Broken (a.) Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.
Broken (a.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. "Her broken love and life." -- G. Eliot.
Broken (v. t.) Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.
Broken (v. t.) Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.
Broken (v. t.) Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting.
Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. -- Macaulay.
Broken ground. (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground.
Broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow.
Broken line (Geom.), The straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order.
Broken meat, Fragments of meat or other food.
Broken number, A fraction.
Broken weather, Unsettled weather.
Broken (a.) Physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken" [ant: unbroken].
Broken (a.) Not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs" [ant: unbroken].
Broken (a.) Subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low].
Broken (a.) (Especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts" [syn: broken, unkept] [ant: kept, unbroken].
Broken (a.) Tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in" [syn: broken, broken in].
Broken (a.) Topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" [syn: broken, rugged].
Broken (a.) Imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English".
Broken (a.) Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: broken, confused, disordered, upset].
Broken (a.) Weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism".
Broken (a.) Destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family" [syn: broken, wiped out(p), impoverished].
Broken (a.) Out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted" [syn: broken, busted].
Broken (a.) Discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine".
Broken (a.) Lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia".
Broken-backed (a.) Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
Broken-backed (a.) (Naut.) Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. -- Totten.
Broken-backed (a.) Having the spine damaged; "a broken-backed book"; "a broken-backed old horse".
Broken-backed (a.) (Of a horse) Having bones of the back united by a bony growth.
Broken-backed (a.) (Of a ship) So weakened as to sag at each end [syn: broken-backed, hogged].
Broken-bellied (a.) Having a ruptured belly. [R.]
Broken-hearted (a.) Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
She left her husband almost broken-hearted. -- Macaulay.
Syn: Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe-begone; forlorn.
Brokenly (adv.) In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.
The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. -- Cudworth.
Brokenness (n.) The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. -- Macaulay.
Brokenness (n.) Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
Broken wind () (Far.) The heaves.
Broken-winded (a.) (Far.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
Broker (n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent.
Broker (n.) (Law) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. -- Story.
Broker (v. t.) A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
Broker (v. t.) A dealer in secondhand goods. [Eng.]
Broker (v. t.) A pimp or procurer. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Bill broker, One who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange.
Curbstone broker or Street broker, An operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [U.S.]
Exchange broker, One who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money.
Insurance broker, One who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire.
Pawn broker. See Pawnbroker.
Real estate broker, One who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage.
Ship broker, One who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc.
Stock broker. See Stockbroker.
Broker (n.) A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission [syn: agent, factor, broker]
Broker (v.) Act as a broker.
Broker, () Object request broker
Brokerage (n.) The business or employment of a broker. -- Burke.
Brokerage (n.) The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
Brokerage (n.) A stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller [syn: brokerage, brokerage firm, securities firm].
Brokerage (n.) The business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties.
Brokerage (n.) Place where a broker conducts his business [syn: brokerage house, brokerage].
Brokerage, () contracts. The trade or occupation of a broker; the commissions paid to a broker for his services.
Brokerly (a.) Mean; servile. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Brokery (n.) The business of a broker. [Obs.]
And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. -- Marlowe.
Broking (a.) Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [Obs.]
Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. -- Shak.
Brolly (n.) 【英】【口】傘 Colloquial terms for an umbrella [syn: gamp, brolly].
Compare: Gamp
Gamp (n.) 【口】（捲疊不整齊的）大雨傘 A large umbrella; -- said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit."
Gamp (n.) Colloquial terms for an umbrella [syn: gamp, brolly].
Broma (n.) (Med.) Aliment; food. -- Dunglison.
Broma (n.) A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.
Bromal (n.) (Chem.) An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.
Bromance (n.) [ C ] (Informal)（非性關係的）男性情誼 A close, friendly, but not sexual relationship between two men.
// The two men apparently struck up a bromance while working on the movie set together.
Bromate (n.) (Chem.) 【化】溴酸鹽 A salt of bromic acid.
Bromate (v. t.) (Med.) 使與溴化合 To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.
Bromate (v.) React with bromine [syn: bromate, brominate].
Bromate (v.) Treat with bromine [syn: bromate, brominate].
Bromatologist (n.) One versed in the science of foods.
Bromatology (n.) The science of aliments. -- Dunglison.
Brome (n.) [F.] (Chem.) See Bromine.
Brome grass () (Bot.) A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
Bromeliaceous (a.) (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.
Bromic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.
Bromic (a.) Relating to or containing bromine (especially pentavalent bromine).
Bromide (n.) (Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
Bromide (n.) A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. [Slang]
The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary. -- Gelett Burgess.
Bromide (n.) A conventional or trite saying; -- often used in the phrase "old bromide".
Bromide (n.) Any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs.
Bromide (n.) A trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide].
Bromide, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 163
Housing Units (2000): 80
Land area (2000): 0.669281 sq. miles (1.733430 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.669281 sq. miles (1.733430 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09150
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.417909 N, 96.494569 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bromide, OK
Bromide
Brominate (v. t.) See Bromate, v. t.
Brominate (v.) React with bromine [syn: bromate, brominate].
Brominate (v.) Treat with bromine [syn: bromate, brominate].
Bromine (n.) (Chem.) 【化】溴 One of the halogen elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.
Bromine (n.) A nonmetallic heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water [syn: bromine, Br, atomic number 35].
Bromine ()
Symbol: Br
Atomic number: 35
Atomic weight: 79.909
Halogen element. Red volatile liquid at room temperature. Its reactivity is somewhere between chlorine and iodine. Harmful to human tissue in a liquid state, the vapour irritates eyes and throat. Discovered in 1826 by Antoine Balard.
Bromism (n.) (Med.) A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.
Bromize (v. t.) (Photog.) To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate.
Bromlife (n.) (Min.) A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.
Bromoform (n.) (Chem.) A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects. -- Watts.
Bromoform (n.) Colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 [syn: bromoform, tribromomethane].
Brompicrin (n.) (Chem.) A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin. [Spelt also brompikrin.] Brompton's cocktail.
Brompton mixtureBrompton's mixture
Bromuret (n.) See Bromide. [Obs.]
Bromyrite (n.) (Min.) Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.
Bronchi (n. pl.) (Anat.) See Bronchus.
Bronchia (n. pl.) (Anat.) The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi. -- Dunglison.
Bronchial (a.) (Anat.) 支氣管的 Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the lungs.
Bronchial arteries, Branches of the descending aorta, accompanying the bronchia in all their ramifications.
Bronchial cells, The air cells terminating the bronchia.
Bronchial glands, Glands whose functions are unknown, seated along the bronchia.
Bronchial membrane, The mucous membrane lining the bronchia.
Bronchial tube, The bronchi, or the bronchia.
Bronchial (a.) Relating to or associated with the bronchi; "bronchial tubes"; "bronchial pneumonia".
Bronchic (a.) (Anat.) Bronchial.
Bronchiole (n.) (Anat.) A minute bronchial tube.
Bronchitic (a.) Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.
Bronchitic (a.) Suffering from or prone to bronchitis.
Bronchitis (n.) (Med.) 【醫】支氣管炎 Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.
Bronchitis (n.) Inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes.
Broncho (n.) A native or a Mexican horse of small size. [Western U.S.]
Broncho (n.) An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang [syn: bronco, bronc, broncho].
Bronchocele (n.) (Med.) See Goiter.
Bronchophony (n.) A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.
Compare: Pneumonia
Pneumonia (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the lungs.
Note:
Catarrhal pneumonia, or Broncho-pneumonia, Is inflammation of the lung tissue, associated with catarrh and with marked evidences of inflammation of bronchial membranes, often chronic; -- also called lobular pneumonia, from its affecting single lobules at a time.
Croupous pneumonia, Or ordinary pneumonia, is an acute affection characterized by sudden onset with a chill, high fever, rapid course, and sudden decline; -- also called lobar pneumonia, from its affecting a whole lobe of the lung at once. See under Croupous.
Fibroid pneumonia Is an inflammation of the interstitial connective tissue lying between the lobules of the lungs, and is very slow in its course, producing shrinking and atrophy of the lungs.
Broncho-pneumonia (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.
Bronchotome (n.) (Surg.) An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.
Bronchotomy (n.) (Surg.) An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.
Bronchi (n. pl. ) of Bronchus.
Bronchus (n.) (Anat.) 【解】支氣管 One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.
Bronchus (n.) Either of the two main branches of the trachea [syn: bronchus, bronchial tube].
Bronco (n.) Same as Broncho.
Bronco (n.) An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang [syn: bronco, bronc, broncho].
Brond (n.) A sword. [Obs.]
Brontolite (n.) Alt. of Brontolith.
Brontolith (n.) An aerolite. [R.]
Brontology (n.) A treatise upon thunder.
Brontosaur (n.) (Paleon.) A dinosaur of the genus Brontosaurus; an individual may also be called a brontosaurus or an apatosaurus.
Brontosaurus (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of large sauropod American dinosaurs of the jurassic era, or an individual of that genus. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles. The genus is also called Apatosaurus, and individuals of the genus are also called brontosaurs.
Brontosaurus (n.) Huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus].
Brontotherium (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.
Brontozoum (n.) (Paleon.) An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.
Note: The tracks made by these reptiles are found eighteen inches in length, and were formerly referred to gigantic birds; but the discovery of large bipedal three-toed dinosaurs has suggested that they were made by those reptiles.
Bronze (n.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
Bronze (n.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
A print, a bronze, a flower, a root. -- Prior.
Bronze (n.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
Bronze (n.) Boldness; impudence; "brass."
Imbrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands. -- Pope.
Aluminium bronze. See under Aluminium.
Bronze age, An age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze.
Bronze powder, A metallic powder, used with size or in combination with painting, to give the appearance of bronze, gold, or other metal, to any surface.
Phosphor bronze & Silicious bronze or Silicium bronze Are made by adding phosphorus and silicon respectively to ordinary bronze, and are characterized by great tenacity.
Bronzed (imp. & p. p.) of Bronze.
Bronzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bronze.
Bronze (v. t.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. -- W. Black.
Bronze (v. t.) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. -- Sir W. Scott.
Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.
Bronze (a.) Of the color of bronze [syn: bronze, bronzy].
Bronze (a.) Made from or consisting of bronze.
Bronze (n.) An alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin.
Bronze (n.) A sculpture made of bronze.
Bronze (v.) Give the color and appearance of bronze to something; "bronze baby shoes".
Bronze (v.) Get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: tan, bronze].
Bronzewing (n.) (Zool.) An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.
Bronzine (n.) A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze.