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been boiled; thin or simple soup. I am sure by your unprejudiced discourses that you love broth better than soup. Addison.

A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.

One who frequents brothels.

Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson.

rson, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.

The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.

The state of being brothers or a brother.

The state or quality of being brotherly.

Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.

To inclose in a brothel. [Obs.] Donne.

A brother by one parent, but not by both.

A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation. Shak.

Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor. Shak.

A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.

A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

ify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother." 2 Thess. iii. 15.

Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.

asperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).