Part 1405

<blockquote>I'll <b>broach</b> the tadpole on my rapier's point. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.</def>

<blockquote>Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely <b>broached</b> his boiling bloody breast. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To open for the first time, as stores.</def>

<blockquote>You shall want neither weapons, victuals, nor aid; I will open the old armories, I will <b>broach</b> my store, and will bring forth my stores. <i>Knolles.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.</def>

<blockquote>Those very opinions themselves had <b>broached</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To cause to begin or break out.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Masonry)</fld> <def>To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.</def> <mark>[Scot. & North of Eng.]</mark>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.</def>

<cs><col>To broach to</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.</cd></cs>

<h1>Broacher</h1> <Xpage=183>

<hw>Broach"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A spit; a broach.</def>

<blockquote>On five sharp <b>broachers</b> ranked, the roast they turned. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter.</def>

<blockquote>Some such <b>broacher</b> of heresy. <i>Atterbury.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Broad</h1> <Xpage=183>

<hw>Broad</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>Compar.</tt> <er>Broader</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Broadest</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>brod</ets>, <ets>brad</ets>, AS. <ets>br\'bed</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>br\'c7d</ets>, D. <ets>breed</ets>, G. <ets>breit</ets>, Icel. <ets>brei<?/r</ets>, Sw. & Dan. <ets>bred</ets>, Goth. <ets>braids</ets>. Cf. <er>Breadth</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to <i>narrow</i>; <as>as, a <ex>broad</ex> street, a <ex>broad</ex> table; an inch <ex>broad</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; <as>as, the <ex>broad</ex> expanse of ocean</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.</def> "<i>Broad</i> and open day."

<i>Bp. Porteus.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>broad</b> mixture of falsehood. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<note>Hence: -</note>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.</def>

<blockquote>The words in the Constitution are <b>broad</b> enough to include the case. <i>D. Daggett.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In a <b>broad</b>, statesmanlike, and masterly way. <i>E. Everett.</i></blockquote>