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.
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The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land
of brooks of water. --Deut. viii.
7.
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Empires itself, as doth an inland brook
Into the main of waters. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young
men can not brook restraint. --Spenser.
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Shall we, who could not brook one lord,
Crouch to the wicked ten? --Macaulay.
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3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] --Sir J. Hawkins.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brook
n : a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a
tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
[syn: creek]
v : 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, abide, suffer,
put up]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Brook, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 1062
Housing Units (2000): 423
Land area (2000): 0.660769 sq. miles (1.711385 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009309 sq. miles (0.024109 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.670078 sq. miles (1.735494 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07966
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.866026 N, 87.365812 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47922
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Brook, IN
Brook
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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