Brook 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.
brook
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]
brook I. nounEtymology: Middle English, from Old English brōc; akin to
Old High German bruoh marshy ground Date: before 12th century
creek 2 II. transitive verbEtymology: Middle English brouken to use, enjoy, from Old
English brūcan; akin to Old High German brūhhan to use,
Latin frui to enjoy Date: 15th century
to stand for ;tolerate <he would brook no interference
with his plans>
brook 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
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.
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.
BROOK
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.
Alfred Ely Day
Brook
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.
Brook, IN (town, FIPS 7966)
Location: 40.86599 N, 87.36579 W
Population (1990): 899 (386 housing units)
Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 47922
brook
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.
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "brook":
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
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