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The quality or state of having bristles.

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.

Having a broad brim. A broad-brimmed flat silver plate. Tatler.

Having horns spreading widely.

Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves. Keats.

Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.

Having a ruptured belly. [R.]

Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is som…

A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.

Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.

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.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem. Shak.

Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.

e and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.

Having a dark tint.

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racems of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.