brough2 (broch)

[Also brugh, brogh, broch, and burg, burrow; supposed to be a particular use of brough1, burg, for borough1, a fortified place; but in the sense of 'circle,' 'halo,' ef. bur row2, n., 4.] 1. An ancient circular building or round tower such as exist in Scotland and the adjacent islands. The Burg of Mousa is a circular building 41 feet high; its walls, which are double, with a vacant space between them, diminish from 14 feet in width at the base to 8 feet at the summit, and inclose a central area; the door is 7 feet high. These structures are older than the Scand in avian invasions, and probably date almost from the bronze age. 2. An encampment of a circular form; a ring fort. Also called Pecht's [Pict's] house or Pecht's castle.-3. In the game of curling, one of the two circles drawn around the tee.-4. A hazy circle around the sun or moon, considered as a presage of a change of weather. [Scotch in all IMG:content-2606.png:[blocks in formation] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary Brou a ware Brou a ware. See pottery. Bro us so net i a (brö-so-nē'shiä), n. [NL., after M. Brou onet or Brou ounet, a French naturalist (1761-1807).] A genus of plants, of two or three species, natural order Urticaceæ, nearly allied to the mulberry, natives of eastern Asia and the Pacific islands. The paper-mulberry ( B. pa pyrifera) and B. Kæmpferi are cultivated in China and Japan, where the bark of the young shoots is the chief material for the manufacture of paper. From the bark of the paper-mulberry is also made the tapa-cloth extensively used throughout Polynesia. brouzet, n. and v. See browsel. brow (brou), n. [ Fruiting Branch of (Bro us so net i a papy Paper-mulberry rifer a ). old pl. brynn, = Sw. Dan. bryn (>E. brine2, q.v.) = (cf. G. braune, below), eyebrow; closely related to ME. brew, breow, brey, bre, bra, bro, etc., eyebrow, Your inky brows , your black silk hair. 3. The forehead. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 5. IMG:content-2608.png:[blocks in formation] Milton, P. L., iv. 885. 5. In entom., that part of an insect's head which lies between the clypeus and the vertex, generally just above the antenne.-6. The edge of a steep place; the upper portion of a slope: as, "the brow of the hill," Luke iv. 29.-7. In England, a fringe of coppice adjoining the hedge of a field.-8. In coal - mining, an underground roadway leading to a working-place, driven either to the rise or to the dip. Gresley. [Leicestershire, Eng.] -9. Naut., an old name for an inclined plane of planks from the A Ship's Brow. shore or the ground to a ship, to facilitate entry and exit. In this sense also spelled brough. 10. In a saw-mill, an incline up which logs are drawn to be sawed.-11. [Also written broo; taken as a particular use of brow, "an ill brow " being then orig. a frowning or unfavorable look; "nae brow," no (sc. favorable) look or view.] View; opinion: in the phrases an ill brow, an unfavorable opinion; nae brow, no good opinion. [Scotch.] But thir ridings and wappenshawings, my leddy, I hae nae broo of them ava. Scott , Old Mortality, vii. Bent brow. (a) An arched eyebrow. (b) A wrinkled or knit brow. To knit the brows, to frown. brow (brou), v. t. [ IMG:content-2609.png:[blocks in formation]