BROAD

Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. "Broad and open day." Bp. Porteus.

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. A broad mixture of falsehood. Locke.

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case. D. Daggett. In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way. E. Everett.

Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.

Free; unrestrained; unconfined. As broad and general as the casing air. Shak.

Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.

Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.

The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.

The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. [Local, Eng.] Southey.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. Knight.