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A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

A small brook.

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

The bank of a brook.

A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

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, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.

t of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A. Ludovicianum.

A broomstick. [Obs.] Shak.

A stick used as a handle of a broom.

Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer.

me business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

Srubs and bushes upon which animals browse.

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

Any tooth that juts out. When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. Thackeray.

Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon. "Buffoon stories." Macaulay. To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances. Melmoth.

The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.

Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.

The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.

Low; vulgar. [R.] Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.