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In the represented or assumed character of. " I'll to him again in name of Brook." Shak. -- Name plate, a plate as of metal, glass, etc., having a name upon it, as a sign; a doorplate. -- Pen name, a name assumed by an author; a pseudonym or nom de plume. Bayard Taylor. -- Proper name (Gram.), a name applied to a par…

tuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself. 1 Kings vi. 19. Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God. Milton.

To exceed in value. [R.] H. Brooke.

Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. As the hart panteth after the water brooks. Ps. xlii. 1. Who pants for glory finds but short repose. Pope.

r white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather. Water pimpernel. (Bot.) See Brookweed.

The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

h a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform. "The platform of Geneva." Hooker.

The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together. H. Brooke.

h. Yes, yes, his faith attesting nations own; 'T is Punic all, and to a proverb known. H. Brooke.

murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.

A very small brook; a streamlet.

tying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook. Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow. Macaulay.

A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.

A small stream; a brook; a creek.

A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook. To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. Lowell.

A rivulet or small brook. Buddling rundels joined the sound. Collins. By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson.

rring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brooklite.

ure. This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything. Shak. His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught. Dryden.

Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton.

notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker. Brook silversides (Zoöl.), a small fresh-water North American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.