Part 1420

<blockquote>When with downcast eyes we muse and <b>brood</b>. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

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<h1>Brood</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brood</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To sit over, cover, and cherish; <as>as, a hen <ex>broods</ex> her chickens</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cherish with care.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To think anxiously or moodily upon.</def>

<blockquote>You'll sit and <b>brood</b> your sorrows on a throne. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Broody</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brood"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Inclined to brood.</def>

<i>Ray.</i>

<h1>Brook</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brook</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>brok</ets>, <ets>broke</ets>, <ets>brook</ets>, AS. <ets>br\'d3c</ets>; akin to D. <ets>broek</ets>, LG. <ets>br\'d3k</ets>, marshy ground, OHG. <ets>pruoh</ets>, G. <ets>bruch</ets> marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. <ets>break</ets>, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See <er>Break</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.</def>

<blockquote>The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of <b>brooks</b> of water. <i>Deut. viii. 7.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Empires itself, as doth an inland <b>brook</b> Into the main of waters. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Brook</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brook</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Brooked</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Brooking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>broken</ets>, <ets>bruken</ets>, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. <ets>br<?/can</ets>; akin to D. <ets>gebruiken</ets> to use, OHG. <ets>pr<?/hhan</ets>, G. <ets>brauchen</ets>, <ets>gebrauchen</ets>, Icel. <ets>br<?/ka</ets>, Goth. <ets>br<?/kjan</ets>, and L. <ets>frui</ets>, to enjoy. Cf. <er>Fruit</er>, <er>Broker</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To use; to enjoy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; <as>as, young men can not <ex>brook</ex> restraint</as>.</def>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<blockquote>Shall we, who could not <b>brook</b> one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten? <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To deserve; to earn.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir J. Hawkins.</i>

<h1>Brookite</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brook"ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Named from the English mineralogist, H.J.<ets>Brooke</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.</def>

<h1>Brooklet</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brook"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A small brook.</def>

<h1>Brooklime</h1> <Xpage=185>

<hw>Brook"lime`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant (<spn>Veronica Beccabunga</spn>), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is <spn>V. Americana</spn>.</def> <altsp>[Formerly written <i>broklempe</i> or <i>broklympe</i>.]</altsp>