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Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; --
opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad. |
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Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad
expanse of ocean. |
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Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. |
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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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Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. |
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Plain; evident; as, a broad hint. |
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Free; unrestrained; unconfined. |
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Characterized by breadth. See Breadth. |
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Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a
broad joke; broad humor. |
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Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. |
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The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar. |
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The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. |
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A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of
cylinders. |
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