Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A murmuring sound as of wind blowing through a forest.
Examples
“All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a "brool" over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom.”
“brool' over the sea that sounds like some passage of doom.”
“All vastness, the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a ‘brool’ over the sea that sounds like some passage of doom.”
“Its _brool_ deepening, the Parrott stirred, shot forward abruptly.”
“There was the brool of war in the valley of Howpaslet.”
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
“It resembled the brool of lions heard afar by seafaring men upon some savage shore on a still night.”
“List to the brool of that royal forest-voice; sorrowful, low; fast swelling to a roar!”
“While I read "at once" to mean "all at the same time" you obviously read it as "immediately." so while your follow up made little sense to me since it was redundant in the manner in which I read the thread starter's comment, it was quite sensible in the manner in which you read it. therefore, I dug you back up. brool story co.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brool’.
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Words used in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
decadence, emancipation, nostalgia, abounded, modernity, revolution, famine, conservative, privy, vied, nascent, correspondence and 211 more...
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Foyle's Philavery
A selection from Christopher Foyle's book, Foyle's Philavery: A Treasury of Unusual Words, which I was delighted to learn about here.
abligurition, arcifinious, batterfang, bottomry, broggle, brool, cacoepy, cark, dangleation, dasyphyllous, dentiloquy, deglute and 93 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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Dracula
Words from Dracula
caleche, patronymic, saturnine, portmanteau, cudgelling, mattock, embrasure, faugh, disgorged, brool, scuppers, spume and 21 more...
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hackerb9's list
Words that please me
scrobiculate, galactophagous, stereoblastula, didjeridu, hrududu, foo, quux, unix, boxen, blorp, numismatic, spam and 8 more...
Tweets
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myth All vastness, the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a 'brool' over the sea that sounds like some passage of doom. Dark figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes half shrouded in the mist, and seem 'men like trees walking'. The fishing boats are racing for home, and rise and dip in the ground swell as they sweep into the harbour, bending to the scuppers. - Dracula Mar 7, 2009
flannagan (A low roar; a deep murmur or humming.) Jul 31, 2007