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A journey, or stage of a journey. [Obs.] With easy roads he came to Leicester. Shak.

In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.

Destitute of roads.

One who makes roads.

Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4. Moored in the neighboring roadstead. Longfellow.

A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads. A sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster. Thackeray.

A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages. Shak.

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior.

Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

xisted in the Church of England. It is called by different names: Moderate, Catholic, or Broad Church, by its friends; Latitudinarian or Indifferent, by its enemies. Its distinctive character is the desire of comprehension. Its watch words are charity and toleration. Conybeare.

A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.

The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state.

Having a broad brim. A broad-brimmed flat silver plate. Tatler.

Having horns spreading widely.

Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves. Keats.

An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.

A wild duck (Aythya, or Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.

A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of Friends.

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.