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Broad

BROAD, a. brawd. [L. gradior; a root of extensive use.]
1. Wide; extended in breadth, or from side to side, as distinguished from long, or extended from end to end. It is opposed to narrow; as a broad street; a broad table.
2. Wide; extensive; vast; as the broad expanse of ocean.
3. Large; as a broad mixture of falsehood.
4. Open; clear; not covered,confined or concealed; as in broad sunshine.
5. Gross; coarse; as broad mirth; broad nonsense.
6. Plain; tending to obscenity; as a broad comment.
7. Bold; not delicate; not reserved; as broad words.
8. Comprehensive.
It may be urged that the words in the constitution are broad enough to include the case.
Broad as long, equal upon the whole.
broad appears in definitions for these words:
A Abroad Acrothymion Almadie Aneurism Angel-fish Angusticlave Ansers Artichoke Ax Baboon Backed Balanced Banana Band Barque Base Basin Bat Batten Bay Bayonet Beating Birdbolt Blade Bluff Bor Bow Brad Breasted Brim Broad Broad-backed Broad-breasted Broad-brimmed Broad-cast Broad-eyed Broad-fronted Broad-leafed Broad-leaved Broad-shouldered Broad-sword Broad-tailed Broaden Broadish Broadly Bull-head Butter-tooth Calabash-tree Camelopard Capacious Catacomb Chain Chest Chop Circumference Clap Coffer Commodore Coralloidal Cord Court Covert-way Cross-stone Crucian Cutlas Destruction Discous Dish Display Dock Edge Elk Fairy Fether Finned Flap Flapeared Flapped Flapping Flat Flyboat Footpace Full-faced Galanga Gladen Glave Gondola Griddle Hanger Harpoon Head Helmed Hollow I Inoffensive Jar Justle Kyanite Lamin Lateral Laticlave Latirostrous Latitude Lay List Long Lot Measure Milky-way Moose Nail Narrow Narrowing Narrows Nose-fish Oblong Oblongness Omoplate Orphean Oval Paddle Paddle-staff Palm Pan Pattee Pawed Peel Pendant Pickax Plank Plate Platform Platter-faced Pot Practice Punch Quintin Ramp Rhomboid Roller Rudder Sabre Sail-board Scarp Scupper-nail Scuttle Shag Share Sheet Sheet-copper Sheet-iron Sheild Shoe Shoulder-blade Shovel Side Slap Slice Sliced Slicing Slot Sow-thistle Spade Specter Spred Spring Squat Squill Stamp Stole Strait Sulcate Sweep Tabernacle Tabling Talc Tenuity Testudo Thereat Torrid Touch Trailing Tunnel Turbinate Unbroke Wair Wampum Wanty Wash-board Way Wedge-shaped White-line Wide Willow Worral Zedoary Zodiac

 

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