Forms: 1 brád, 2–3 brad, 3–6 brod, 4–6 brode, 6 broode, 4–5 brood, 6– broad. Also north. 3–4 brad, (bradd), 4–5 brade, 4– Sc. braid. Compared broader, -est (1 brǽdre, brádre; brádost; 4–5 braddere, braddest; bredder). [Common Teut.: OE. brád, identical with OFris. brêd, OSax. brêd (MDu. breet -d-, Du. breed), OHG. (MHG. and mod.G.) breit, ON. breið-r, (Sw., Da. bred), Goth. braiþ-s:—OTeut. *braido-z: no related words are known even in Teutonic, except its own derivatives: see BREADTH, BREDE.]
1. Extended in the direction measured from side to side; wide. Opposed to narrow.
a. 1000. Cædmon’s Gen., 994 (Gr.). Brad blado.
c. 1000. Ags. Ps. cxxxvi[i]. 1. Ofer Babilone bradum streame.
c. 1205. Lay., 7635. Þe stelene brond swiðe brad [c. 1275 brod] and swiðe long.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter viii. 7. Swa by the brad way thai ga till hell.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, I. 386. With banys gret & schuldrys braid.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 249. Þe brode weie to helle.
c. 1440. York Myst., xxxii. 19. My forhed both brente is and brade.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 374. Noman is without a place long and brood.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., cxxxiv. 113. To make his foreste lenger and bredder.
1552. Abp. Hamilton, Catech., xxvi. 121. The braid … way of deadly syn that leidis to hel.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia, 239. About his neck he wore a brode and gorgeous collor.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, IV. i. 95. The Broad square is the battell which conteineth more, or as much, as twise so many men in front, as in flank.
1611. Bible, Job xi. 9. Broader then the sea.
a. 1762. Lady M. W. Montague, Lett., II. xlvi. 30. Not half so broad, as the broadest part of the Thames.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric., I. 417. A broad chest is an excellence in a hunter.
b. = in transverse measurement.
a. 1000. O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), Introd. Brittene iʓland is ehta hund mila lang and twa hund brad.
1297. R. Glouc., 1. Foure hondred myle brod from Est to Weste.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, 792. A litel rounded as a sercle Paraventure brode as a covercle.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1981/1. A twentie score brode from banke to banke aboue.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 76. Almost an acre and a halfe broad.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 199. A Leaf no broader than a Three-pence.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 23 Feb., 11/1. The later Scouts are to be 5 ft. longer and 2 ft. broader.
c. Applied technically to certain fabrics, now or originally distinguished by their width, as BROAD CLOTH, q.v., broad glass (D 2); also broad silk as distinguished from silk ribbons; whence broad-silk-loom, -weaver, broad stuffs, broad trade, broad weaver.
1682. Lond. Gaz., No. 1762/4. Mr. John Guile, Broad-Weaver … in Spittle-fields. Ibid. (1723), No. 6189/4. John Jacobs … Broad Silk Weaver. Ibid., No. 6190/9. Richard Gardner … Broad-Weaver.
1727. De Foe, Eng. Tradesm., xxi. We now make at home all the fine broad-silks, velvets, brocades.
1826. Annual Reg., 59/1. The throwsters, the broad-trade manufacturers, and the dyers, admitted their superiority…. But the ribband manufacturers, [etc.].
1841. Penny Cycl., XIX. 490/1. A recent contrivance by which the broad-silk loom had been made applicable to ribbon-weaving.
1883. American, V. 262. The finest broad-silks … were produced in Macclesfield.
† d. Broad gold, money: see BROAD-PIECE.
1688. Lond. Gaz., No. 2352/2. Exchanging of Broad Mony for Clipt. Ibid. (1702), No. 3814/4. A Piece of Broad Gold of K. Charles I. in his Armour. Ibid. (1724), No. 6300/2. Two Persons have been offering to change Broad Gold for Guineas … They had 68 Broad Pieces.
2. Less definitely as to direction (e.g., where length is not applicable, or not in question): Of great extent, extensive, wide, ample, spacious.
a. 1000. Elene, 917 (Gr.). Is his rice brad.
c. 1205. Lay., 5087. In ænne bradne feld [c. 1275 in to one brode felde].
a. 1300. Cursor M., 8530. Ouer al þis werld brade.
c. 1394. P. Pl. Crede, 118. We buldeþ a burwȝ, a brod and a large.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 106. He salle … Bryne Bretayne þe brade.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 52. Brode or large of space, spaciosus.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 7. The hole brode worlde.
1671. Milton, P. R., II. 339. In ample space under the broadest shade.
1784. Cowper, Task, II. 22. Human nature’s broadest, foulest blot.
1814. A. Wilson, Rab & Ringan. As though braid Scotland had been a’ his ain.
1843. Lever, J. Hinton, vii. (1878), 47. The broad and swelling lands, that stretched away … far as the eye could reach.
† b. Of time. Obs.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 659. Fro mony a brod day byfore ho barayne ay byene.
† 3. Large in amount, ample, plentiful. Obs.
a. 1000. Beowulf, 6201. Beaʓas and brad gold.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 102. Mid brod schome & sunne.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3713. His brade [v.r. brood] blissing he him gaue.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 584. Hit is a brod wonder.
† b. Abounding, full of. Obs.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 24744. Sua brad of hir blis es þe wai.
c. 1320. Sir Tristr., 177. Of folk þe feld was brade.
4. Wide open; fully expanded.
971. Blickl. Hom., 23. Hie hine … mid bradre hand sloʓan.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xxvi. 67. Sume hine sloʓan on hys ansiene mid hera brada handen.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 17837. Til heuen þai lifted þair eien brade.
1607. Dekker & Webster, Hist. Sir T. Wyat, 19. Wee stand high in mans opinion, and the worldes broad eye.
b. esp. Of day, daylight, etc.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 107. Ful oft, whan it is brode day.
1530. Palsgr., 201/2. Broode daye, grant jour.
1579. Fulke, Refut. Rastel, 722. We do not light wax candels in ye brod day light.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, viii. 232 (J.). It no longer seeking the shelter of night and darkness, but impatient of such delay, appears in the broadest light.
1693. Locke, Educ., § 122 (J.). If Children were let alone, they would be no more afraid in the Dark, than in broad Sun-shine.
1732. Berkeley, Alciphr., iv. § 3. A solitary walk before it was broad daylight.
1821. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., II. ii. 25. Awake through all the broad noon-day.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, III. 149. It cannot be concealed … it will all out to the broad day.
1879. Lockyer, Elem. Astron., iii. xxiv. 125. The comet of 1843 … was visible in broad daylight.
5. Plainly displayed before the mental vision; plain, clear, obvious; ‘pronounced,’ emphatic, explicit.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., II. v. 49. How brode sheweþ þe errour and þe folie of ȝow men.
a. 1577. Gascoigne, Voy. Holland. I name no man, for that were brode before.
1699. Bentley, Phal., 184. Surely this is a hint broad enough.
1709. Strype, Ann. Ref., Introd. § 1. 8. Mary, Queen of Scotland, and the Dauphin … gave broad signs of their pretences to the Crown of England.
1825. Scott, Talisman (1863), 215. He understands or guesses thy meaning—be not so broad, I pray thee.
1861. Parker, Goth. Archit., I. v. (1874), 161. There is no broad line of distinction.
Mod. The hint is too broad to be mistaken.
b. Most apparent; prominent, outstanding, general, main. (Opposed to ‘subordinate,’ ‘minute.’)
1860. Kingsley, Misc., I. 10. I merely take the broad facts of the story.
1869. Huxley, in Sci. Opinion, 28 April, 486/2. A knowledge of [the] broad outlines [of a subject].
1885. Manch. Exam., 6 May, 5/1. The broad features of the accident.
6. Of language (or the speaker): a. Plain-spoken, outspoken (often in a bad sense); unreserved, not mincing matters.
1588. in Harl. Misc. (1809), II. 81. I … have been very often ashamed to hear so broad speeches of the King and the Pope.
a. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, I. 224. His wrath, that this broad language gave.
1654. Gataker, Disc. Apol., 77. Without anie broad or uncivil language.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 208, ¶ 3. A fulsom Way of commending you in broad terms.
1827. Hallam, Const. Hist., vii. (L.). The broadest and most repulsive declaration of all the Calvinistic tenets.
1870. R. C. Jebb, Sophocles’ Electra (ed. 2), 36/1. She now repeats the avowal in broader terms.
† b. Coarse, unrefined, vulgar. Obs.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, 2. I toke an olde boke, and … the englysshe was so rude and brood that I coude not wele vnderstande it.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc. (1860), 19. Speake a broad word … amongst huntsmen in chaze, you shall be leasht for your labor: as one that disgraceth a gentlemans pastime … with the termes of a heardsman.
c. Loose, gross, indecent.
1580. North, Plutarch (1676), 39. To sport one with another, without any broad speeches or uncomly jests.
1611. Cotgr., Vn gras, a broad, or bawdie, tale.
1628. Earle, Microcosm., xlix. (Arb.), 70. Onely with broad and obscœne wit.
a. 1700. Dryden, Ovid’s Art of Love, I. 882. Broad words will make her innocence afraid.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 278. Laughing outrageously at a broad story.
1882. Traill, Sterne, 15. A collection of comic but extremely broad ballads.
7. Of pronunciation: Perhaps orig.: With ‘wider’ or ‘lower’ vowel-sounds (i.e., with the back or the front oral cavity more dilated); but commonly used of a strongly marked dialectal or vulgar pronunciation of any kind, e.g., ‘Broad Yorkshire,’ ‘Broad Devonshire,’ ‘Broad Cockney.’ Broad Scotch: the Lowland Scotch vemacular.
1532. [see C 3].
1580. A. Golding, Pref. Verses, in Baret’s Alv. The diffrence … Of brode North speech and Sowthren smoothednesse.
1697. Potter, Antiq. Greece, I. i. (1715), 3. The Ancient Greeks pronounc’d the letter a broad like the Diphthong αυ, as in our English word All.
1724. De Foe, Mem. Cavalier (1840), 236. A broad north-country tone.
1787. Burns, Brigs of Ayr, 167. In plain braid Scots hold forth a plain braid story.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 320. His oaths … were uttered with the broadest accent of his province.
1859. Blackw. Mag., Sept., 255/2. Broad Yorkshire talked all over the ship.
1877. Sweet, Phonetics, 18. In the broad London pronunciation this lengthening of originally short vowels is extremely common.
† b. Of sound: Full, deep, low in pitch. Obs.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 258. The females have a shrill and sharper voice then the males, which is fuller and broader.
8. Unrestrained, kept within no narrow bounds; going to full lengths.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. iv. 2. His prankes haue been too broad to beare with.
1815. Scribbleomania, 127. Kenny possesses some requisites for broad farce.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., I. 207. She was the picture of broad, honest, vulgar enjoyment.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 183. The mirth is broader, the irony more sustained.
† 9. Widely diffused; spread all abroad. Obs.
1605. Shaks., Macb., III. iv. 23. As broad, and generall, as the casing Ayre.
10. Having a wide range, extensive; widely applicable, inclusive, general.
[1741–2. H. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann, I. 93. The Tories … if Tories there are, for now one hears of nothing but the Broad Bottom; it is the reigning cant word, and means, the taking all parties and people indifferently into the ministry.]
1871. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 45. Intellectual education in the broadest sense that was then possible.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., III. xxi. 619. Personal feeling must be sacrificed to save … broader principles.
1875. Hamerton, Intell. Life, X. v. 387. A broad rule … applicable to all imaginable cases.
11. Characterized by breadth of opinion or sentiment; liberal, catholic, tolerant, allowing wide limits to ‘orthodoxy.’ (Cf. BREADTH 4, BROAD CHURCH.)
1832. L. Hunt, Poems, 226. With his broad heart to win his way to heaven.
1850. [See BROAD CHURCH].
1873. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 323. Keats had the broadest mind.
1886. Morley, Crit. Misc., I. 78. Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent and spacious way.
12. Art. Characterized by artistic ‘breadth’; executed with a view to general effect rather than to special details. Cf. 5 b, and see BREADTH 5.
1862. Grote, Greece, II. liv. IV. 561. A portrait of him drawn in colours broad and glaring.
1879. G. A. Sala, in Daily Tel., 8 May, 2/1. Two broad, powerful, and vividly-expressed portraits by Mr. G. F. Watts.
1885. Athenæum, 30 May, 702/3. Being broad and rich in tone and colour, the picture is worthy to be ranked with the Dutch masterpieces of the seventeenth century.
13. Phrases. † In the broad or the long: in one way or another. It’s as broad as it’s long (or as long as it’s broad): it comes to the same thing either way, it makes no difference.
1682. Scarlett, Exchanges, 171. If the Principal … doth force his factor one way or other, in the broad or the long, to make up his Disbursements.
1687. R. L’Estrange, Answ. Diss., 6. Whether the Church of England-Men Reject the Roman Catholiques, or the Roman Catholiques Reject the Church of England-Men, ’tis Just as Broad as it is Long. Ibid. (1694), Fables, cccxcix. (J.). For ’tis as Broad as ’tis long, whether they Rise to others, or bring others down to them.
1775. Gouv. Morris, in Sparks, Life & Writ. (1832), I. 55. It is as long as it is broad—the more [troops] that are sent to Quebec the less they can send to Boston.
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., II. ix. 113. The sharper the famine, the higher are prices, and the higher I sell, the more I can spend … and so it’s as broad as it’s long.
B. sb. [mostly elliptical.]
† 1. Breadth: only in phrase in, on, o, a brode; now represented by ABROAD adv.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 347. Þis werld … Seit for to be on lang and brad.
c. 1420. Anturs of Arth., xxxv. Beddus brauderit o brode.
1456. Paston Lett., 281, I. 386. The straungiers ar soore a dradde, and dar not come on brode.
2. The broad part, the full breadth (of the back, the foot, etc.).
1741. Monro, Anat. (ed. 3), 294. The Broad of the Foot.
Mod. To lie on the broad of one’s back.
† 3. = BROADCLOTH. Obs.
c. 1500. Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 73. Clothes called fyn brodes of the makyng of Essex.
† 4. = BROAD-PIECE. Obs.
1710. Lond. Gaz., No. 4672/4. A … Purse, with 30 Guineas and 5 Brodes in it.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, xlii. 224. Presenting one of the collectors with a broad (piece) or half a broad.
1763. Snelling, Gold Coin, 28 (L.). When the twenty shilling pieces, commonly called guineas, were coined in the reign of Charles II, then the unites of the Commonwealth, Charles I, and James I, received the name of broads or broad-pieces.
5. In East Anglia, an extensive piece of fresh water formed by the broadening out of a river.
[1711. Act 9 Anne, in Lond. Gaz., No. 4870/2. Fens, Lakes, broad Waters, or other Places of resort for Wild Fowl.]
1787. Marshall, Norfolk (E. D. S.), Broads, fresh-water lakes (that is, broad waters; in distinction to narrow waters, or rivers).
1812. Southey, Lett. (1856), II. 307. A broad is the spread of a river into a sheet of water.
1844. E. Jesse, Sc. & Tales Country Life, I. 82. The graceful bendings of the stream, sometimes opening into shallow broads.
1884. G. C. Davies (title), Norfolk Broads and Rivers; or, the Water-ways, Lagoons, and Decoys of East Anglia.
attrib. 1883. M. G. Watkins, in Academy, 8 Dec., 377/2. Upon ourselves the artistic aspect of the Broad district exercises the greatest fascination.
6. slang. (pl.) Playing cards.
1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Broads, cards; a person expert at which is said to be a good broad-player.
1834. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, IV. ii. I nick the broads.
C. adv. [in OE. a distinct word bráde, ME. brode: but on the mutescence of final -e, levelled with the adj.]
1. In a broad or extensive way; broadly, widely, fully; far, abroad.
a. 1000. Cædmon’s Gen., 223 (Gr.). Fison brade bebuʓeþ.
1297. R. Glouc., 417. Pur blod sprong & wende aboute brode & wyde.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 753. A tri appeltre … þat was braunched ful brode.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., Prol. Whose praises … To blazon broad emongst her learned throng.
a. 1725. Pope, Odyss., XIV. 338 (J.). Broad burst the lightnings, deep the thunders roll.
† b. With eyes wide open, with a stare. Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Chan. Yem. Prol. & T., 867. Though ye looken neuer so brode and stare.
c. 1430. Hymns Virg., &c. (1867), 37. Summe staren broode & moun not se.
2. Outspokenly, unreservedly.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 741. Crist spak himself ful broode in holy writ.
c. 1440. York Myst., xix. 89. Thou burdis to brode!
1607. Shaks., Timon, III. iv. 64. Who can speake broader, then hee that has no house to put his head in?
1850. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., v. 29. We don’t quite fancy when women and ministers come out broad and square, and go beyond us in matters of either modesty or morals.
† b. To laugh broad: to laugh freely, without restraint, grossly.
1643. Milton, Divorce, Introd. (1851), 6. The brood of Belial … will laugh broad perhaps.
1658. W. Burton, Itin. Anton., 50. The wise men of the age will laugh broad at these … enquiries.
3. With a broad pronunciation or ‘accent’; with the vowels of dialectal or vulgar speech.
c. 1532. Dewes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 899. Ye shal pronounce your e as ye do in latyn, almost as brode as ye pronounce your a in englysshe.
1596. Edw. III., II. i. 12. And then spoke broad, With epithets & accents of the Scots.
Mod. ‘We Devonshire men speak very broad.’
4. Broad awake, broad waking: fully awake, wide awake.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 53. From sleepe I broad waked.
1626. T. H., trans. Caussin’s Holy Crt., 152. We dreame broad-waking.
1666. J. Smith, Old Age, 127. Then shall he be broad awake.
1736. Wesley, Wks. (1872), I. 29. Being in bed, but broad awake.
1844. G. S. Faber, Eight Dissert., II. 352. The bard seems to have been broad awake.
5. Naut. (Cf. LARGE, WIDE.)
1860. Merc. Mar. Mag., VII. 82. A light was seen broad on the port bow [i.e., a good deal to the left of the point right ahead].
D. Comb. [from adj. and adv.]
1. General. a. parasynthetic, as broad-backed, -based, -beamed, -bladed, -bodied, -bosomed, -bottomed, -boughed, -breasted, -buttocked, -chested, -eared, -eyed, -flapped, -fronted, -headed (1530), -hearted, -hoofed, -horned, -limbed, -listed, -margined, -minded, -nosed, -shouldered, -skirted, -souled, -sterned, -striped, -tailed, -toed, -wayed, -wheeled, -winged, etc., etc.; b. adverbial, as broad-built, -flashing, -grinning, -spread, -spreading, etc.
1651. Advt., in Proc. Parliament, No. 81. A short Sorrell Mare … *broad backed.
1857. Emerson, Poems, 49. We will climb the broad-backed hills.
1769. Phil. Trans., LIX. 310. A *broad-based pyramid.
1835. I. Taylor, Spir. Despot., vi. 263. A broad-based hierarchy.
1883. G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 395/1. We would look at the brown-sailed, *broad-beamed old luggers and hay barges scudding by.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 160. The fruit of the *broad-bosomed earth.
1702. Lond. Gaz., No. 3837/4. A Silver Tankard, *broad bottom’d.
1804. Ld. Eldon, in G. Rose, Diaries (1860), II. 79. Forming an administration upon those broad-bottomed principles.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, II. App. xxxiv. The *broad-breasted earth, the spacious skie.
1797. Coleridge, Christabel, I. vi. The huge broad-breasted, old oak tree.
1768. Wales, in Phil. Trans., LX. 109. Their persons … seem to be low; but pretty *broad built.
1662. Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 288. He had, as I may say, a *broad-chested soul, favourable to such who differed from him.
1870. Bryant, Iliad, I. III. 92. That other chief Taller and broader-chested than the rest.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., I. v. 29. *Broad-fronted Cæsar.
1530. Palsgr., 307/1. *Brode-heeded, embrabile.
1838. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. VI. 163. Cover the wood with broad-headed nails.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe (Hotten), 414. A very generous *broad-hearted Man.
1585. Act 27 Eliz., xvii. Any cloth … of like making called *Broad-listed Whites.
1599. Marston, Sco. Villanie, 167. Base blew-coates, tapsters, *broad-minded slaues.
1882. Ld. Blandford, in Daily News, 7 Feb., 3. No more broad-minded than … the Church they have seceded from.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Espaldudo *broad shouldered, scapulosus.
1842. Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man, 178. Robust, broad-shouldered, with dark complexion.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb. (1861), 115. A *broad-skirted coat with huge buttons.
1687. Lond. Gaz., No. 2211/4. A duskish brown bald Mare, *broad spread.
1591. Spenser, Ruins of Time, 452. *Broad spreading like an aged tree.
1802. Bingley, Anim. Biog. (1813), I. 467. The *Broad-tailed Sheep.
1816. G. Colman, Br. Grins, Mr. Champern., i. (1872), 296. Like *broad-wheeled wagons wanting springs.
1816. Keats, To brother George. The *broad-wing’d sea-gull never at rest.
2. Special comb.: broad-band (see quots.); broad bean (see BEAN 1); broad-bill, a name for several birds having broad bills, esp. the Shoveller and Spoonbill; broad-blown a., in full bloom, full-blown; broad-eyed a., having large eyes, with eyes wide open; broad-glass, window-glass; also attrib., as broad-glass-house, -maker; broad-horn, a kind of flat boat used on American rivers; broad-leaf (Bot.), a tree (Terminalia latifolia) found in Jamaica; also a local name for the Greater Plantain (Plantago major); broad-man, broads-man (dial.), one who lives near the Norfolk Broads; broad-mouthed a., having a broad mouth; also (of words) plain-spoken, insolent (obs.); broad-seed (Bot.), the English name of the genus Ulospermum; broad-set a., stoutly formed, thick-set; broad-silk, broad trade, broad-weaver (see BROAD 1 c.); broad-spoken a., using plain language, plain-spoken.
1629. Boyd, Last Battell, 643 (Jam.). The verie euill thoughts of the wicked in that day shalbe spread out and laide in *broad-band before the face of God.
1847. Halliwell, Broad-band, corn laid out in the sheaf on the band, and spread out to dry after rain. North: [see also Jamieson, and Atkinson, Provinc. Danby, s.v.]
1783. C. Bryant, Flora Diætetica, 83. The common Broad Bean is a native of Egypt.
1819. Rees, Cycl., s.v. Vicia, The long-pods, *broad Spanish, and white-blossomed bean.
1634. Althorp MS., in Simpkinson, Washingtons, Introd. 23. Teales 7—Peckards 3—*Broad-bills 5.
1802. G. Montagu, Ornith. Dict. (1833), 55.
[1602. Shaks., Ham., III. iii. 81. With all his Crimes *broad blowne, as fresh as May.]
1855. Tennyson, Maud, I. xiii. 9. His face … Has a broad-blown comeliness red and white.
1877. Dowden, Shaks. Primer, vi. 72. Bottom in his broad-blown self-importance.
a. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, VIII. 173. *Brood-eyed Joves proud will.
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., I. (1858), 23. Some fast asleepe, others broad-eyed.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 122. The glass-houses, both for Vessells and *broad-glass.
1710. Lond. Gaz., No. 4723/3. Any broad Glass-house within the Kingdom. Ibid. (1712), No. 4951/4. Broad Glass, or Window-Glass … sold by any of the Broadglass-makers.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 651. Next to it in cheapness of material may be ranked broad or spread window-glass.
1839–40. W. Irving, Wolfert’s R. (1855), 193. A flat-bottomed family boat, technically called a *broad-horn.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 255. *Broad-leaf Tree … grows to a very considerable size.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 534. Broad Leaf, the Terminalia latifolia, a tree, native of Jamaica.
1882. Blackw. Mag., Jan., 100/1. The fixed belief among a large number of *Broadsmen is, that they breed upon the land, and subsequently take to the water.
1884. G. C. Davies, Norfolk Broads, xix. 145. The Broadman’s food is chiefly fish and fowl.
1594. Greene, Selimus, Wks. (Grosart), XIV. 286. Your squared words And *broad-mouth’d tearmes.
1864. Mag. for Young, May, 179. This little fellow … dived head foremost into a broad-mouthed glass jar.
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4465/6. A plain *broad-set light gray Mare.
1858. W. Ellis, Visits Madagascar, ii. 47. He was … rather broad-set than corpulent.
