[f. BROOK v.]
† 1. The capacity to take (food); assimilation, digestion. Obs.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 53. Brokynge of mete and drynke, retencio.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 61. The brooking of enormous quantity of meats … without Surfeit.
2. Endurance, bearing. (Now chiefly gerundial.)
1624. Bacon, New Atl., iii. (1635), 42. We have ships and boats for going under water, and brooking of seas.
Mod. After brooking such an insult.
