broad 
He urius, aiirl limk.s broad notmenfte with a stare. 
/'..;..-, linneiad, ii. IIM. 
6. Widely diffused; open; full: a8, in 
sunshine; broad daylight. 
Fill oft, wliiin it in bmlf day. 
tinti'fr, t'nnf. Ainant., ii. 107. 
I count littlo of tlu- many things I see paM at bt-mul IHMHI 
day, in large and open stiv< N. 
Sterih', Sentimental Journey, p. 10:1 
It was broad day, and the people, recovered from their 
panic, were enabled to see and estimate the force of the 
enemy. Irving, Granada, p. B. 
7. Unconfined; free; unrestrained, (o) Ued 
absolutely. 
As hniail and general an the casing air. 
.s7i*-., Miifbcth, Hi. 4. 
(A) I nrestrained by a sense of propriety or fitness ; unpol- 
ishnl ; loutish. 
Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with. 
Shale., Hamlet, ill. 4. 
(.) I 'unstrained by considerations of decency; indeli- 
cate; indecent. 
As chaste and modest as he is esteemed, it cannot be 
denied but in some places he is broad and fulsome. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, Dcd. 
(d) Unrestrained by fear or caution ; bold ; unreserved. 
For from broad words, and 'cause he fall'd 
His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear, 
Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak., Macbeth, ill. 6. 
8. Characterized by a full, strong utterance ; 
coarsely vigorous; not weak or slender in 
sound : as, broad Scotch; broad Doric ; a broad 
vowel, such as a or d or <i. 9f. Plain; evi- 
dent. 
Proves thee far and wide a broatl goose. 
Shak., R. and J., II. 4. 
10. In the fine arts, characterized by breadth : 
as, a picture remarkable for the broad treatment 
of its subject. See breadth, 3 As broad as (It 
Is) long, equal upon the whole ; the same either way. 
It is as broad as long whether they rise to others or 
bring others down to them. Sir K. L'Eitrange. 
Broad Church, the popular designation of a party in 
the Church of England. See Episcopalian. Broad fo- 
llo, broad quarto, etc., names given to drawing-pa- 
per folded the broadest way. Broad gage. See ffttyeZ. 
Broad glass, window-glass of a cheap quality formed 
by blowing a long cylinder, cutting It apart, and al- 
lowing the pieces to soften and flatten out in a kiln. 
See glass. Also called 
British sheet-glass, cylin- 
der-glass, German platf- 
ylastt, and spread ipindow- 
glass. Broad lace, a 
woolen fabric made in 
bands alxmt 4 inches 
wide, and used as an 
ornamental Iwrder to 
the upholstery of a car- 
riage. Car<bttilder's Diet. 
Broad pennant 
(mutt.*, a swallow-tailed 
nag carried at the mast- 
head of a mau-of-war as 
the distinctive mark of a 
commodore. = Syn. 1. 
Extended, spread. 1 
and 2. Wide, Broad. See 
wide. "I. (c) Vulgar, ob- 
scene. 
w: \ uroau T tir- 
Brit- 
very A 
V to /l\ 
B an- y II V 
arked M \ \ 
-"'"Is f I ^ 
2oa r im ^ 
Broad Pennant of a Commodore, 
United States Navy. 
II. H. 1. A shallow, fenny lake formed by 
the expansion of a river over adjacent flat land 
covered more or less with a reedy growth; a 
flooded fen, or 
lake in a fen : 
as, the Norfolk 
broads. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
A broad is the 
spread of a river 
into a sheet of wa- 
ter, which is cer- 
tainly neither lake 
nor lagoon. 
X:>uth>'H. letters 
[(1812), II. 307. 
Tlion across the 
mill - pool, and 
through the deep 
.TiioKs. out into the 
brnattn, and past the 
withered beds of 
wee, Is which told of 
coming winter. 
//. Kiiujsley, 
[Ravenshoe, viii. 
2. In meeh., a 
tool used for 
turning down 
the insides and 
bottoms of cyl- 
inders in the 
lathe. 3. An 
English coin 
lirsl issued in 
1C19 by James 
I., and worth at 
the time 20*. 
44 
Broad of lames I.. British Museum. 
( Sixe of the original. ) 
C,S!I 
Tin 1 ooin was also issued subsequently. Also 
called laurel and broad-piece. 
broad (brad), adv. [< ME. brootle, brode, < AS. 
brdtli; (= MHG. breite, O. breif), broadly ; from 
the adj.] If. Broadly; openly; plainly. 
Crist spak himself ful brimde in holy writ. 
Chaueer, Gen. Prol. toC. T., I. T.V.I. 
2f. Widely; copiously; abundantly. Chaucer. 
3. Broadly; fully. 
With all his crimes broad blown, as hush as May. 
.I'/mit., llainl. -l,iii.:i. 
Lying broad awake I thought of you and Eflle dear. 
Tennyson, May IJneen (t'cp|iclnini. 
broadt. v. t. [ME. broden,<. AS. brddian, spread, 
< brad, broad. Cf. ftrcorf 2 .] To make broad; 
spread. 
Tyll the blessed bredd [bird] brodid his wlngis. 
Richard the Redden. 
broad-arrow (brad'ar'6), n. [< ME. brode arow, 
brmlarice, etc., a heavy arrow; < broad + ar- 
row.] The royal mark of Brit- 
ish government stores of every 
description, which it is felony 
obliterate or deface. Personi 
lawfully in possession of goods marked 
with the broad-arrow forfeit the goods 
and are subject to a penalty of 200. 
The broad-arrow was the cognizance of Broad-arrow. 
Henry, Viscount Sydney, Earl of Rom- 
ni > . Vaster-general of Ordnance from 1693 to 1702, and was 
in -i used in his time. In heraldry It differs from the 
pheon (which see) in having the inside of the barbs plain, 
broadax (brad'aks), n. [< ME. brodax, brood- 
axe, etc., < AS. brddcex, < brad, broad, + <tx, 
ax: see broad and oji.] If. A battle-ax. 2. 
An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber. 
See cut under ax. 
Then let the sounds of measured stroke 
And grating saw begin, 
The broad-axe to the gnarled oak, 
The mallet to the pin ! 
Whittier, Ship-Builders. 
broad-based (brad'bast), a. Having a broad 
foundation; securely founded. [Rare.] 
Her throne . . . 
Broad-based upon her people's will. 
Tennyson, To the Queen. 
broadbill (brad'bil), . 1. The shoveler-duck, 
Spatula clypeata. 2. The spoonbill, Platalea 
leucorodia. 3. The scaup-duck, Fuligula ma- 
ril , and other species of that genus. 4. A 
bird of the family Kuryltrmida'. There are nine 
or ten species of broadbills peculiar to the 
Indian region. Also called broadmouth. 
broad-billed (brad'bild), a. In ornith., having 
a broad bill. Broad-billed sandpiper, the LimimUi 
jdatttrhiinclia. 
broadbrim (brad'brim), n. 1. A hat with a 
very broad brim, especially the form of hat 
worn by members of the Society of Friends. 
Hence 2. A member of that society; a 
Quaker. Carlyle. [Colloq.] 
broad-brimmed (brad'brimd), a. 1. Having 
a broad border, brim, or edge. 
Oovert Ixjckerman, without taking his pipe out of his 
mouth, turned up his eye from under his broad-brimmed 
hat to see who hailed him thus discourteously. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 251. 
2. Wearing a hat with a broad brim. 
This broad-brimm'd hawker of holy things. 
Tennyson, Maud, x. 
broadcast (brad'k&st), a. 1. Cast or dispersed 
upon the ground with the hand, as seed in sow- 
ing: opposed to sowed in drills or rows. 2. 
Widely spread or diffused. 
broadcast (brad'kast), n. In agri., a method 
of sowing in which the seed is thrown from the 
hand in handfuls. 
My lads, said he, let broad-catt be, 
And come away to drill. Hood. 
broadcast (brad'kast), adv. 1. By scattering 
or throwing at large from the hand : as, to sow 
broadcast. 2. So as to disseminate widely ; in 
wide dissemination. 
An impure, so called, literature sown broadcast over the 
land. Blackwood's May. 
broadcloth (brad'kldth), n. A fine woolen cloth, 
commonly black, with a finished surface, mostly 
used in making men's garments : so called from 
its breadth, which is usually 60 inches. 
Every whole woollen cloth, called broad cloth, which 
shall be made and set to sale after the feast called St. 
Peter ad vincula, which shall be in the year of our Lord 
M.CCCC.LXV., after the full watering, racking, straining, 
or tenturing of the name, ready to sale, shall hold and 
contain in lenirth xxiv yards, and to every yard an inch, 
containing the breadth of a man's thumb, to l>e measured 
by the crest of the same cloth, and in breadth ij yards, or 
vij quarters at the least, within the lists. 
Kn : ,lih fiilds (E. E. T. S.X p. S51, note. 
They be all patched clontea and ragges, in comparison 
of faire wolien broade cloathet. 
Aseham, The Scholeniaster, p. 60. 
broadside 
broaden fbra'dn), r. [< broad + -m l . Cf. broad, 
i'.] I. intrant. To grow broad or broader. 
To broaden Into IwundleH day. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, zcv. 
II. truHH. To make broad; increase in 
breadth ; render more broad or comprehensive : 
a.s. 'broaden'd nostrils," Thomson, Winter. 
broad-eyed (bratl'id), a. Having a wide view 
or survey. 
broad-fronted (br&d'frun'ted), a. Having a 
broad front; having a wide forehead: as, 
linind-fro/iti-d Ca-sar," Shak., A. and C., i. 5. 
broad-gage (brad'gaj), a. Having the space 
between the rails wider than the standard gage 
of ."><U inches: said of a railroad track: opposed 
to narrow-gage, which signifies less than the 
standard width. See gage%. 
broadhorn (brad'h&rn), n. A name by which 
the flat-boats on the Mississippi and other 
American rivers were formerly known. 
A broad-horn, a prime river conveyance. / < 
The river's earliest commerce was in great barges, keel- 
IH ults, broadhorns. 
S. L. Clement, Life on the Mississippi, p. 41. 
broad-horned (brad'hornd), a. Having wide- 
spread horns. Huloet. 
broadleaf, broadleaf-tree (brad'lef, -tre), . 
A tall tree, Terniinalia latifolia, natural order 
Combretacetz, common in Jamaica, bearing large 
and long-petioled leaves at the end of the 
branches. 
broadly (brad'li), adv. 1. In a broad manner. 
That broadly flows through Pylos' fields. 
Chapman, Iliad, v. 
Custlne has spoken out more broadly. 
Burke, Present State of Affairs. 
These simple, broadly draped figures were sculptured 
by Niccola at Pisa. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 21. 
Specifically 2. In zool., so as to extend over a 
relatively large space : as, broadly emarginate ; 
broadly Insinuate, etc. A part is broadly trun- 
cate when the truncation is nearly or quite 
equal to its greatest width, 
broadmouth (brad'mouth), n. A bird of the 
family Euryleemidie (which see); a broadbill. 
broadness (brad'nes), H. [< broad + -ness.'] 1. 
Breadth; extent from side to side. 2. Coarse- 
ness; grossness; indelicacy. 
Broadness and indecency of allusion. 
Craik, Eng. Lit., I. 524. 
broad-piece (brad'pes), n. Same as broad, n., 3. 
broad-seal (brad'sel), n. The official or great 
seal of a country or state: as, "the king's 
broad-seal," Sheldon, Miracles, p. 61. [More cor- 
rectly as two words.] Broad-seal war. in U. s. 
hist., a contest in the House of Representatives, In Decem- 
ber, 183, as to the admission or exclusion of five \Vhig 
members from New Jersey, who had certificates of election 
under the broad seal of the State, but whose seats were 
contested by Democratic claimants. 
broad-seal (brad'sel), v. t. [< broad-geal, n.] 
To stamp as with the broad seal ; guarantee ; 
make sure. 
Thy presence broad-seals our delights for pure. 
/,'. Jotison, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. 
broad-shouldered (brad'shol'derd), a. Having 
the back broad across the shoulders. 
Broad-shouldered, and his anus were round and long. 
Dryden. 
broadside (brad'sid), n. 1. The whole side of 
a ship above the water-line, from the bow to the 
quarter. 2. A simultaneous discharge of all 
the guns on one side of a vessel of war: as, to 
fire a broadside. 3. In general, any compre- 
hensive attack with weapons of any kind di- 
rected against one point or object. 
Give him a broadside, my brave hoys, with your pikes. 
/.'/". and /'/., PhlUster, v. 4. 
4. A sheet printed on one side only, and with- 
out arrangement in columns; especially, such 
a sheet containing some item of news, or an 
attack upon some person, etc., and designed 
for distribution. 
Every member of the convention received a copy of this 
draft of a constitution, printed on broadsides in large 
type. tlancni.fl, Hist Const, I. 119. 
Van Cltters gives the best account of the trial. I have 
seen a broadside which confirms his narrative. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi., note. 
5. Any surface resembling the side of a ship 
in breadth, etc., as a house-front. 
In the great, blank, gray broadside, there were unly 
four windows. Dickens. 
Broadside on, with the side in advance: sldewlse. To 
take on the broadside, to treat freely and unceremoni- 
ously. 
Determined to take the world on the broadside, and eat 
thereof, and be filled. Carlyle, Diderot 
broadside (brad'sid), adv. [< broadside, n.] 
1. With the broadside directed toward the 
point specified. 
