abroach ment

The act of forestalling the market. a-broad, adv. [Pref. a = on, and broad.] [BROAD.] Gen. In an unconfined manner, widely, at large. Hence 1. Out of the house, though it may be in other houses. "In one house shall it be eaten thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house."- Exod . xii. 46. 2. Outside the house; in the open air; away from one's abode. " Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death."- Lam . 1. 20. "Ruffians are abroad." Cowper : Task , bk. v. IMG:content-0045.png:[blocks in formation] "And from the temple forth they throng, And quickly spread themselves abroad ." Words worth: White Doe of Rylstone, canto i. 5. Throughout society, or the public generally. and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill-country of Judæa."- Luke i. 65. Spread abroad: Widely circulated. ( First Sketches of Henry VI ., p. 97.)