Definition of broad

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Broad (superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive..

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Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem..
Struse :: Struntian (n.) A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad..
Wide :: Wide (superl.) Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide views; a wide understanding..
Pattee :: Pattee (a.) Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross..
Deliver :: Deliver (v. t.) To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball..
Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.
Nap :: Nap (n.) Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth..
Oval :: Oval (a.) Broadly elliptical.
Oomiak :: Oomiak (n.) A long, broad boat used by the Eskimos..
Delate :: Delate (v.) To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like..
Broadwise :: Broadwise (adv.) Breadthwise.
Abroad :: Abroad (adv.) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.
Touch :: Touch (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters..
Chaunter :: Chaunter (n.) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
Zodiac :: Zodiac (n.) An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16? or 18? broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac..
Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense..
Bar :: Bar (n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color..
Slot :: Slot (n.) A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat..
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..
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