brochette (broshet)

[F., dim. of broche, a spit: see broach.] A skewer to stick meat on, used in cookery. brochure (bro-shür'), n. [F., W. broch = Corn. broch = Bret. broch = Gael. Ir. Manx broc ; Ir. also brech and brochd , a bad- ger; prob. so called from its white-streaked face, W. brech = Gael. Ir. breac , speckled (see brill ); brill ); cf. Gael. brocach , brucach , speckled in the face; face; cf. also Dan. broget , Sw. brokig , brok party- colored: see brocket . Cf. bauson .] A badger. Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock , Send in a cur to worry the whole flock! B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, i 2 [Sometimes used as a term of reproach. Marry, hang thee, brock! Shak., T. N., iil. 5.] brock2 (brok), n. [Shetland bruck , brok (not found), gebroc , gebroc, neut., a piece, a fragment (ef. broc , affliction, trouble, fatigue) (= OHG. brocco , MHG. brocke , G. brocken , m., = Dan. brokke = Goth. ga - bruka , f., a piece; cf. dim. MLG. brockel = ÖDan. broggel , a piece, fragment), ent), brecan (pp. brocen ), break: see break, and cf. breach with its variants breck , brick1 , brack1 , etc.; cf. also brockle .] A piece; a fragment. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] brock brock2 (brok), v . t. [Also brok , = OHG. bro chōn , brockōn , MHG. G. brocken = Dan. brokke , break, crumble; from the noun.] To break, crumble, or cut into bits or shreds. [Scotch.] brock3t, v. i. [ME. brokken , perhaps a secondary form of breken (pp. broken ), break. Cf. brock2.] To cry out; murmur; complain: a word of somewhat uncertain meaning, found only in the two pa ages quoted. IMG:content-2581.png:[graphic] What helpth hyt the crokke That hys [is] to felt he [filth] ydo, Aye [against] the crokkere to brokke , "Why madest thou me so?" William de Shoreham , Religious Poems (ed. Wright), p. 106. He singeth brokkynge [var. crowyng , Wright, Morris) as a nyghtingale. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 191.