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tense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. Broome.

royed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.

o suppress the truth. She suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense. Broome.

To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively. I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23.

Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation. -- Sweep"ing*ly, adv. -Sweep"ing*ness, n.

with tapestry. The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock tapestried with broom and wild roses. Macaulay.

t was the initial letter of thorn, a spine. Thorn apple (Bot.), Jamestown weed. -- Thorn broom (Bot.), a shrub that produces thorns. -- Thorn hedge, a hedge of thorn-bearing trees or bushes. -- Thorn devil. (Zoöl.) See Moloch, 2. -- Thorn hopper (Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which lives on the thorn bush,…

. By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey. Broome.

the state of being transplanted; also, removal. The transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta. Broome.

A long-handled, round-headed broom for sweeping ceilings, etc. [Colloq. or Dial.]

atch and tend Their earthy charge. Milton. Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida. Broome.

luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color. [Written also woald, wold, and would.]

, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.

A whisk, or small broom.

Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom. [Obs.]

race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne.

imorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.