BPage 277
- English Word Broach Definition A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
- English Word Broach Definition A broad chisel for stonecutting.
- English Word Broach Definition A spire rising from a tower.
- English Word Broach Definition A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
- English Word Broach Definition A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
- English Word Broach Definition The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- English Word Broach Definition The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- English Word Broach Definition To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
- English Word Broach Definition To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
- English Word Broach Definition To open for the first time, as stores.
- English Word Broach Definition To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
- English Word Broach Definition To cause to begin or break out.
- English Word Broach Definition To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
- English Word Broach Definition To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
- English Word Broached Definition of Broach
- English Word Broacher Definition A spit; a broach.
- English Word Broacher Definition One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.
- English Word Broaching Definition of Broach
- English Word Broad Definition Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
- English Word Broad Definition Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
- English Word Broad Definition Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- English Word Broad Definition Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
- English Word Broad Definition Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- English Word Broad Definition Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
- English Word Broad Definition Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
- English Word Broad Definition Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
- English Word Broad Definition Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
- English Word Broad Definition Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
- English Word Broad Definition The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
- English Word Broad Definition The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.