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A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.

ntracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story.

A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.

Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite.

An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.

panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. 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 b…

ottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used. [Scot.]

ith another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.

- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham bread. "He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic." Shak. (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread.…

The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.

A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.

A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.

ass of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.

A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes.

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

eddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.

resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.] Buckeye State, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees abound there.