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See Bromine.

A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.

An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain gauge.

commodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

To transact business for another. [R.] Brome.

arbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched. "A carbuncled face." Brome.

A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat flelds, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also ch…

Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. [Prov. Eng.] Dr. Prior.

A lamb. [Obs.] Brome (1659).

The fine, soft fiber of the bromeliaceous plant Bromelia sylvestris.

The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges. [Written also pinguin.] Arctic penguin (Zoöl.), the great auk. See Auk.

One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes. Hebrew, the general puzzler of old heads. Brome.

re. I presume . . . that you had been sure as fast as faith could bind you, man and wife. Brome.