BPage 422
- English Word Broker Definition One who transacts business for another; an agent.
- English Word Broker Definition An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.
- English Word Broker Definition A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
- English Word Broker Definition A dealer in secondhand goods.
- English Word Broker Definition A pimp or procurer.
- English Word Brokerage Definition The business or employment of a broker.
- English Word Brokerage Definition The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
- English Word Brokerly Definition Mean; servile.
- English Word Brokery Definition The business of a broker.
- English Word Broking Definition Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage.
- English Word Broma Definition Aliment; food.
- English Word Broma Definition A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.
- English Word Bromal Definition An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol.
- English Word Bromate Definition A salt of bromic acid.
- English Word Bromate Definition To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.
- English Word Bromatologist Definition One versed in the science of foods.
- English Word Bromatology Definition The science of aliments.
- English Word Brome Definition See Bromine.
- English Word Brome grass Definition A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
- English Word Bromeliaceous Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family.