BPage 285
- English Word Broom Definition An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
- English Word Broom Definition See Bream.
- English Word Broom corn Definition A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
- English Word Broom rape Definition A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.
- English Word Broomstaff Definition A broomstick.
- English Word Broomstick Definition A stick used as a handle of a broom.
- English Word Broomy Definition Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.
- English Word Brose Definition Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.
- English Word Brotel Definition Brittle.
- English Word Brotelness Definition Brittleness.
- English Word Broth Definition Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.
- English Word Brothel Definition A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
- English Word Brotheler Definition One who frequents brothels.
- English Word Brothelry Definition Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel.
- English Word Brother Definition A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
- English Word Brother Definition One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
- English Word Brother Definition One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
- English Word Brother Definition To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
- English Word Brother german Definition A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.
- English Word Brother-in-law Definition The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
- English Word Brothered Definition of Brother
- English Word Brotherhood Definition The state of being brothers or a brother.
- English Word Brotherhood Definition An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
- English Word Brotherhood Definition The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
- English Word Brotherhood Definition Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
- English Word Brotherliness Definition The state or quality of being brotherly.
- English Word Brotherly Definition Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.
- English Word Brotherly Definition Like a brother; affectionately; kindly.
- English Word Brothers Definition of Brother
- English Word Brothers Definition of Brother