brock9 (brok)

A variant of brough2. brockage (brok'āj), n. [Appar. All imperfect coins, curiously termed brockages , are picked out. Ure, Dict., III. 349. brocket (brok'et), a . [ broget , older form * broket , party-colored: see brock1 .] Va IMG:content-2621.png:[blocks in formation] brod (brod), n. [Sc., Gael. Ir. brod , a goad, prickle, prickle, sting: sting: and ef. prod . ] 1. A sharp-pointed instrument. -2. A prick with such an instrument; hence, an incitement; instigation. brod (brod), v . t. or i.; pret. and pp. brodded , ppr. brodding. [ broddled , ppr. broddling . [E. dial., freq. of brod, v.] To prick; pierce; Ir. brog , a shoe, Gael. also a hoof. The brogue was made of rough hide; it was regarded as characteristic of the wilder Irish, and so the name came to designate their manner of speaking English.] 1. Formerly, in Ireland, a shoe made of rawhide, with the hair outward, reaching as far as the ankle and tied by thongs.-2. A similar foot-covering worn by the Scotch Highlanders, but commonly made of deer-hide, either freshly stripped off or half dried, and having holes to allow water to escape. Some [of the new captains and lieutenants] had been so about strangely in their military jack-boots. used to wear brogues that they stumbled and shuffled 3. A smooth piece of wood worn on the foot in the operation of washing tin, when the ore is in fine particles.-4. A dialectal manner of pronunciation: especially used of the mode of pronouncing English peculiar to the Irish. In the House of Commons, the Scotch accent and the Irish brogue may be often heard. Quarterly Rev. brogue2 (brog), n. A variant of brog2 . Burns. brogues (brögz), n. pl . Same as breeches. [Prov. broidt (broid), v. [ browden , etc., variants (due to the pp. broden, brozden) of breiden, braiden , braid: see braid1 , and cf. broider .] Same as braid1 . Hire yolwe heer was browded [var. broyded , breided ] in a Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 191. broider (bro i'der), v . t . [Early mod. E. also brouder, browder , brauder , broder ; brauderen , confused with (as if freq. forms of) broyden , browden (early mod. E. broid , broud , var. forms of braid1 : see braid1 , broud , browd ), but prop. var. forms of borduren , borderen, E. border , v. (after broidery, broudery , q. v.); ult. broder , usually border (= Sp. Pg. bor- dar = It. bordare , * bordare ), adorn with needlework, prop. work on the edge, bord , border, edge, welt, or hem of a garment, etc.: see border and board . Cf. embroider .] To adorn with figures of needlework, or by sewing on ornaments; embroider: as, "a broidered coat," Ex. xxviii. 4. [Obsolete or poetical.] IMG:content-2622.png:[blocks in formation] God save you, sir! Where have you been broiling ? Shak ., Hen. VIII., iv. 1. He broiled with impatience to put his design in exe- cution. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii. 5. broil2 (broil), n. [In the earliest use known, Lord Berners's translation of Froi art, vol. ii. c. 140 (1525), the word is spelled breull , appar. breul , * breuil , * broil , a tumult, broil (= It. broglio , OIt. also brollo , broggio (Florio), confusion, tumult, rising, revolt), a verbal noun, agreeing with the newly formed mod. F. brouille (> early mod. E. broilly , Sc. brulyie ), disagree- ment, misunderstanding, falling out (cf. OF. brouilliz, brouillis , quarrel, contention, discord, confusion), brouiller , mod. F. brouiller (= Pr. brolhar = OSp. brollar = Pg. brolhar = It. brogliare, Olt. also brollare ), confuse, jumble, trouble, mar, spoil, etc., prob. orig. entangle as in a thicket (cf. E. Broyl , the name of a wood in Su ex), breul , breuil , broil (= Pr. bruelh , m.; also OF. bruelle Pr. bruelha = = Pg. brulha , f.), a thicket, grove, wood, forest (agree- ing with the a umed forms cited above in the sense of 'tumult, confusion'), = It. bruolo , a kitchen-garden, brolo , an orchard, Olt. broilo , brollo, a garden, IMG:content-2623.png:[blocks in formation] ornamental needlework wrought upon cloth. [Obsolete or poetical.] The frail bluebell peereth over Rare broid'ry of the purple clover. broignet, n. [OF., also broinge , brugne , brunie , ML. bronia , brunia , of Teut. origin, broill (broil), v. [= Sc. broilyie , brulyie , broilen , bruiller , broil, grill, roast, bruir in same senses (F. brouir , blight), brüejen , brüen , scald, singe, burn, G. brühen , scald (= MLG. brogen, broien, brugen , scald, cook, = MD. broeijen , scald, D. broeijen , hatch, brood, breed, soak, grow hot), brücje , G. brühe = MD. broeije , broth, breel , brewis , and see brood1 . ] I. trans. To cook by the direct action of heat over or in front of a clear fire, generally upon a gridiron, as meat or fish. The weather for this fortnight has been broiling without interruption, one thunder-shower excepted, which did not cool the air at all. Gray, Letters, I. 398. broillyt, n. An obsolete form of broil2 . broilmentt, n. [= Sc . brulyie ment ; broil2 + -ment.] A broil; a brawl. broinderg (bro in'derg), n. [ brudhearg , redbreast, lit. red-bellied, bru (gen. bronn, dat. broinn ), belly (= W. bru , belly), + dearg , red.] A name for the redbreast, Erythacus rubecula . Macgillivray . [Local, Scotch.] brokage (bro'kaj), n . [Also written brocage , brokage , brocage , broc- in brocour , bro- ker, + -age . See broker .] 1. An arrangement made or sought to be made through the agency of a broker or go-between. He woweth hire by mene and by brocage . Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 189. 2. The premium or commi ion of a broker; the gain or profit derived from transacting bus i- ne as broker for another.-3. The trade of a broker; the transacting of commercial bus i- ne , as buying and selling, for other men. See broke2, broker . The Jewes in Rome... live onely upon brokage and Evelyn, Diary, Jan. 15, 1645. usury. brokage Proud Of his rich cloaks and suits, though got by brokage . Mas singer, Duke of Milan, iii. 2. Marriage brokage. See marriage. brokel (brōk). Preterit and (with broken ) past participle of break .