v. t. [ OE. abrochen, OF. abrochier. See Broach. ] To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + broach. ] 1. Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. “Mischiefs that I set abroach.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. acrochen, accrochen, to obtain, OF. acrochier, F. accrocher; à (L. ad) + croc hook (E. crook). ] 1. To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. [ 1913 Webster ]

They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. Stubbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. accrochement. ] An encroachment; usurpation. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Approached; p. pr. & vb. n. Approaching. ] [ OE. approchen, aprochen, OF. approcher, LL. appropriare, fr. L. ad + propiare to draw near, prope near. ] 1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? 2 Sam. xi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. [ Archaic ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) To take approaches to. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. approche. See Approach, v. i. ] 1. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. “The approach of summer.” Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nearer approach to the human type. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A access, or opportunity of drawing near. [ 1913 Webster ]

The approach to kings and principal persons. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Movements to gain favor; advances. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. (Fort.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Hort.) See Approaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Golf) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

8. (Aviation) that part of a flight during which an airplane descends toward the landing strip. [ PJC ]

9. (Bowling) the steps taken by a bowler just before delivering the ball toward the pins. [ PJC. ]

n. The quality of being approachable; approachableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who approaches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impossible to be approached. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. approachement. ] Approach. [ Archaic ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. broche, F. broche, fr. LL. brocca; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. proc thrust, stab, Gael. brog awl. Cf. Brooch. ] 1. A spit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He turned a broach that had worn a crown. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. [ Prov. Eng. ] Forby. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) (a) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper. (b) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Masonry) A broad chisel for stonecutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Arch.) A spire rising from a tower. [ Local, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Broached p. pr. & vb. n. Broaching. ] [ F. brocher, fr. broche. See Broach, n. ] 1. To spit; to pierce as with a spit. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To open for the first time, as stores. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shall want neither weapons, victuals, nor aid; I will open the old armories, I will broach my store, and will bring forth my stores. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those very opinions themselves had broached. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To cause to begin or break out. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Masonry) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. [ Scot. & North of Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. [ 1913 Webster ]

To broach to (Naut.), to incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A spit; a broach. [ 1913 Webster ]

On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some such broacher of heresy. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. cucaracha. ] (Zool.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The species are numerous, especially in hot countries. Those most commonly infesting houses in Europe and North America are Blatta orientalis, a large species often called black beetle, and the Croton bug (Blatta Germanica, formerly Ectobia Germanica), also called the German cockroach. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A tooth of a wool comb. [ Written also combrouch. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Encroached p. pr. & vb. n. Encroaching. ] [ OF. encrochier to perch, prop., to hook, fasten a hook (perh. confused with acrochier, F. accrocher, to hook, get hold of, E. accroach); pref. en- (L. in) + F. croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Accroach. ] To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway. [ 1913 Webster ]

No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.

Syn. -- To intrude; trench; infringe; invade; trespass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Encroachment. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of encroachment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil establishment. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is taken by encroaching on another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled. -- In`ap*proach"a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Pref. ir- not + reproachable: cf. F. irréprochable. ] Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Berkely ] erred, -- and who is free from error? -- but his intentions were irreproachable. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Zool.) See Fatherlasher. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. See Approach. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To approach again or anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reproached p. pr. & vb. n. Reproaching. ] [ F. reprocher, OF. reprochier, (assumed) LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. Approach. ] 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I thought your marriage fit; else imputation,
For that he knew you, might reproach your life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid. [ 1913 Webster ]

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ. 1 Peter iv. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

That this newcomer, Shame,
There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed
His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight.
Repelled the victors. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To upbraid; censure; blame; chide; rebuke; condemn; revile; vilify. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. reproche. See Reproach, v. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach. [ 1913 Webster ]

No reproaches even, even when pointed and barbed with the sharpest wit, appeared to give him pain. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give not thine heritage to reproach. Joel ii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. Neh. ii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Disrepute; discredit; dishonor; opprobrium; invective; contumely; reviling; abuse; vilification; scurrility; insolence; insult; scorn; contempt; ignominy; shame; scandal;; disgrace; infamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. reprochable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Deserving reproach; censurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Opprobrius; scurrilous. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*proach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*proach"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reproaches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reproachful speeches . . .
That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Opprobrious; contumelious; abusive; offensive; insulting; contemptuous; scornful; insolent; scurrilous; disreputable; discreditable; dishonorable; shameful; disgraceful; scandalous; base; vile; infamous. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*proach"ful*ly adv. -- Re*proach"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without reproach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A cockroach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. rroche; cf. AS. reohha, D. rog, roch, G. roche, LG. ruche, Dan. rokke ray, Sw. rocka, and E. ray a fish. ] 1. (Zool.) (a) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back. (b) An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish. (c) The redfin, or shiner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit. [ 1913 Webster ]

As sound as a roach [ roach perhaps being a corruption of a F. roche a rock ], perfectly sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to arch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Reproaching one's self. -- Self`-re*proach"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. A turnspit. [ Obs. ] “ One that was her turnbroach.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

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[ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not liable to be reproached; irreproachable. [ 1913 Webster ]