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Character assumed or represented. "The actors and personages of this fable." Broome. "Disguised in a false personage." Addison.

f two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piaçaba and piasaba.

f proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome.

nder general and special heads. I. Watts. Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers. Broome. Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft. Dr. H. More.

le conduct. In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an enemy as defeat one. Broome.

within the wide scale of human woe. Buckminster. To every theme responds thy various lay. Broome.

ment, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

Rocket larkspur. See below. Dyer's Rocket. (Bot.) See Dyer's broom, under Broom. -- Rocket larkspur (Bot.), an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes (Delphinium Ajacis). -- Sea rocket (Bot.), either of two fleshy cruciferous plants (Cakile maritima and C. Americana) found on the seashore of Europe and Ameri…

nutlike fruits. (b) A name for several species of Cyperus having tuberous roots. -- Rush broom, an Australian leguminous plant (Viminaria denudata), having long, slender branches. Also, the Spanish broom. See under Candle. -- Rush grass, any grass of the genus Vilfa, grasses with wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets…

Bloodthirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood. Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary. Broome.

In a scoffing manner. Broome.

A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteïne.

Having the form of a broom or besom. "Zeolite, stelliform or scopiform." Kirwan.

Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish. Scotch broom (Bot.), the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom. -- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck (Zoöl.), the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] Sir W. Scott. -- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, l…

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw. Broome.

oquacious; not talkative. Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men. Broome. This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent. Milton.

nder Bean. -- Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork. Ure. -- Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub (Spartium junceum) having many green flexible rushlike twigs. -- Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of sesquioxide of iron.…

A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline-like odor and very bitter taste.

who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause. Broome.