adv. [ Pref. a- + brood. ] In the act of brooding. [ Obs. ] Abp. Sancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. a- + brook, v. ] To brook; to endure. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; colorless + E. dextrin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; color. ] Colorless; achromatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Crookedly. [ R. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; changed in color, fr. &unr_; other + &unr_; color. ] Changing color. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. [ PJC ]

n. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Approve, and Proof. ] 1. Trial; proof. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Approval; commendation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A white-flowered west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. Maranta arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. Its root yields arrowroot starch. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.
Syn. -- arrowroot, American arrowroot, obedience plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms; bulletproof. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A room for balls or dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having white-downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a commercial establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter. Syn. -- bar-room, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Room in a bed. [ In this sense preferably bed room. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then by your side no bed room me deny. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bigarreau, fr. bigarré variegated. ] (Bot.) The large white-heart cherry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Colicroot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. blatero, -onis. ] A senseless babbler or boaster. [ Obs. ] “I hate such blatteroons.” Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England the name is given to the tormentil, once used as a remedy for dysentery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).
Syn. -- council chamber. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n. A structure which heavy shot and shell will not penetrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea. [ Also spelled brierroot. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. bridegome, brudgume, AS. br&ymacr_;dguma (akin to OS. brūdigumo, D. bruidegom, bruigom, OHG. prūtigomo, MHG. briutegome, G. bräutigam); AS. br&ymacr_;d bride + guma man, akin to Goth. guma, Icel. gumi, OHG. gomo, L. homo; the insertion of r being caused by confusion with groom. See Bride, and cf. Groom, Homage. ] A man newly married, or just about to be married. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Broach, n. ] 1. An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Honor 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Paint.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brooched ] To adorn as with a brooch. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brod, AS. brōd; akin to D. broed, OHG. bruot, G. brut, and also to G. brühe broth, MHG. brüeje, and perh. to E. brawn, breath. Cf. Breed, v. t. ] 1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings. Luke xiii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

A hen followed by a brood of ducks. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flocks of the airy brood,
(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. [ 1913 Webster ]

To sit on brood, to ponder. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Brooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooding. ] 1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brooding on unprofitable gold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cherish with care. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To think anxiously or moodily upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants.
Syn. -- incubator. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about a particular problem.
Syn. -- broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative, gloomy, morose. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that purpose; as, a brooding hen.
Syn. -- brood, hatching. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.
Syn. -- incubation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a female horse used for breeding.
Syn. -- stud mare. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Inclined to brood. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. brōc; akin to D. broek, LG. brōk, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Empires itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main of waters. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brooked p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking. ] [ OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br&unr_;can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr&unr_;hhan, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br&unr_;ka, Goth. br&unr_;kjan, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker. ] 1. To use; to enjoy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall we, who could not brook one lord,
Crouch to the wicked ten? Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deserve; to earn. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Hawkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is Veronica Americana. [ Formerly written broklempe or broklympe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See Water mint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bank of a brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brom, brome, AS. brōm; akin to LG. bram, D. brem, OHG. brāmo broom, thorn&unr_;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. [ 1913 Webster ]

No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]