Part 837

You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne. Dryden.

Brood"y (&?;), a. Inclined to brood. Ray.

Brook (&?;), n. [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. brc; akin to D. broek, LG. brk, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t.] A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7.

Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.

Brook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br&?;can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr&?;hhan, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br&?;ka, Goth. br&?;kjan, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.] 1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. Spenser.

Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten? Macaulay.

3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] Sir J. Hawkins.

Brook"ite (&?;), n. [Named from the English mineralogist, H. J. Brooke.] (Min.) A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

Brook"let (&?;), n. A small brook.

Brook"lime` (&?;), n. (Bot.) A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]

Brook" mint` (&?;). (Bot.) See Water mint.

Brook"side` (&?;), n. The bank of a brook.

Brook"weed` (&?;), n. (Bot.) A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

Broom (&?;), n. [OE. brom, brome, AS. brm; akin to LG. bram, D. brem, OHG. brmo broom, thorn&?;bush, G. brombeere blackberry. Cf. Bramble, n.] 1. (Bot.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.

No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.

2. 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made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.

Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll. -- Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. -- Spanish broom. See under Spanish.

Broom, v. t. (Naut.) See Bream.

Broom" corn` (&?;). (Bot.) 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.

Broom" rape` (&?;). (Bot.) 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.

Broom"staff` (&?;), n. A broomstick. [Obs.] Shak.

Broom"stick` (&?;), n. A stick used as a handle of a broom.

Broom"y (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.

If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer.

Brose (&?;), n. [CF. Gael. brothas. Cf. Brewis, Broth.] 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. [Scot.]

Brot"el (&?;), a. Brittle. [Obs.] Chaucer.