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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BROOK, n. [Gr. to rain, to pour, to flow.] A small natural stream of water, or a current flowing from a spring or fountain less than a river. In some parts of America, run is used in a like sense; but run is also applied to larger streams than brook.
BROOK, v.t. [Gr. to eat, to grind the teeth.] Literally, to chew or digest, as the Fr. digerir. Hence,
To bear; to endure; to support; as,young men cannot brook restraint.
BROOK'-LIME, n. [brook and lime.] A plant, a species of Veronica, called becabunga, with blue flowers in loose lateral spikes.
BROOK'-MINT, n. The water mint.
BROOK'-WEED, n. A plant, water pimpernel, the Samolus.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer" [syn: brook, creek] v
1: put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English br?c; akin to Old High German bruoh marshy ground Date: before 12th century creek 2 II. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English brouken to use, enjoy, from Old English br?can; akin to Old High German br?hhan to use, Latin frui to enjoy Date: 15th century to stand for ; tolerate <he would brook no interference with his plans>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. a small stream. Derivatives: brooklet n. Etymology: OE broc, of unkn. orig. 2. v.tr. (usu. with neg.) literary tolerate, allow. Etymology: OE brucan f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brook Brook, n. [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. br[=o]c; akin to D. broek, LG. br[=o]k, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t.] A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. --Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brook Brook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br?can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr?hhan, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br?ka, Goth. br?kjan, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.] 1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. --Spenser. Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten? --Macaulay. 3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] --Sir J. Hawkins.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(brooks, brooking, brooked) 1. A brook is a small stream. N-COUNT 2. If someone in a position of authority will brook no interference or opposition, they will not accept any interference or opposition from others. From childhood on, she'd had a plan of action, one that would brook no interference... = tolerate, allow VERB: V n

Easton's Bible Dictionary

a torrent. (1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha. (2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3). (3.) In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

brook (nachal, 'aphiq, ye'or, mikhal; cheimarrhos): In Palestine there are few large streams. Of the smaller ones many flow only during the winter, or after a heavy rain. The commonest Hebrew word for brook is nachal, which is also used for river and for valley, and it is not always clear whether the valley or the stream in the valley is meant (Nu 13:23; De 2:13; 2Sa 15:23). The Arabic wady, which is sometimes referred to in this connection, is not an exact parallel, for while it may be used of a dry valley or of a valley containing a stream, it means the valley and not the stream. 'Aphiq and ye'or are translated both "brook" and "river," ye'or being generally used of the Nile (Ex 1:22, etc.), though in Da 12:5-7, of the Tigris. Cheirnarrhos, "winter-flowing," is applied in Joh 18:1 to the Kidron. Many of the streams of Palestine which are commonly called rivers would in other countries be called brooks, but in such a dry country any perennial stream assumes a peculiar importance.

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Rivulet, streamlet, run, runnel, runlet, rill, burn, beck, small stream. II. v. a. Endure, bear, abide, tolerate, suffer, put up with, submit to, bear with, take patiently or easily.

Moby Thesaurus

abide, abide with, accept, adolescent stream, allow, arroyo, be big, be content with, be easy with, bear, bear with, beck, bide, blink at, bourn, braided stream, branch, brave, brooklet, burn, channel, condone, connive at, countenance, creek, crick, disregard, endure, flowing stream, fluviation, fresh, freshet, gill, go, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, have, hear of, ignore, indulge, judge not, kill, lazy stream, lean over backwards, listen to reason, live with, lump, lump it, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, navigable river, not write off, overlook, persevere, put up with, race, racing stream, rill, river, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, see both sides, sike, spill stream, stand, stand for, stick, stomach, stream, stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, suffer, support, suspend judgment, sustain, swallow, take, take up with, tolerate, view with indulgence, wadi, watercourse, waterway, wink at