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Report; rumor; fame. The bruit thereof will bring you many friends. Shak.

To report; to bruit. [Obs.]

orable or unfavorable; as, the fame of Washington. I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited. Shak.

ching, or variously divided, over its surface. -- Venous hum (Med.), a humming sound, or bruit, heard during auscultation of the veins of the neck in anæmia. -- Venous pulse (Physiol.), the pulse, or rhythmic contraction, sometimes seen in a vein, as in the neck, when there is an obstruction to the passage of blood f…