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A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small ship stick.

) Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. -- Broken meat, fragments of meat or other food. -- Broken number, a fraction. -- Broken weather, unsettled weather.

Mean; servile. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

stpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat. Honor 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat. B. Jonson.

To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson.

d by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.…

A short contest, or trial, of speed. Let us enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag. Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.

One who cheats. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.

Hence, any riding horse. [Jocose] Sir W. Scott.

The beech tree. [Scot.] Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.

To join in marriage. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.

A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

To strike. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.

Bulbous. Jonson.

The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidæ. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera. [Written also buhlbuhl.]