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Smoothly. Chaucer. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. Shak.

Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.

eckled Indians (Ethnol.), the Pintos. -- Speckled trout. (Zoöl.) (a) The common American brook trout. See Trout. (b) The rainbow trout.

To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]

luid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnac…

A small stream. [Obs.] "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.

Same as Strew. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. Milton. A manner turbid . . . and strown with blemished. M. Arnold.

To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore. A man can not brook to supplicate or beg. Bacon.

playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. [Obs.] Tabling house, a gambling house. [Obs.] Northbrooke.

nt on the ground by the animal pursued; as, a deer trail. They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail. Cooper. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! Shak.

e case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.

o, to fish by drawing the hook through the water. Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. Bancroft.

Without a truce; unforbearing. Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest. H. Brooke.

for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.

ired me; my soul's up in arms. Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Longfellow.

son. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks. Milton.

A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

A stream of water; a river or brook. Isa. xliv. 4.

A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.

ed relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson.