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salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

Chubby. [R.] H. Brooke.

what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival. And can not brook competitors in love. Shak.

To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. [Obs.] The malcontented sort That never can the present state comport. Daniel.

ter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance. Hixley. Contractile vacuole (Zoöl.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one, two, or more.…

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook. Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks. Goldsmith.

Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] And toward the moon's attractive crescence bend. H. Brooke.

Curled with the ripple of the water. [Poetic] You numphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels. Shak.

e crystal pellets at the touch congeal, And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail. H. Brooks.

d upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak.

ayed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.

Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge.

Dishonor. [Obs.] To the disglory of God's name. Northbrooke.

t a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.

e. "He rakes hot embers." Dryden. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.

nded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

Attended by, or having the character of, emotion. H. Brooke. -- E*mo"tive*ly, adv.

to p,k,v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. f, L. lupus, Gr. fox, vixen ; fragile, break ; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear, L. ferre. See Guide to Pronunciation, sq. root 178, 179, 188, 198, 230.

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.