Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A borough.
- n. A fortified place. Compare brough.
- n. An ancient circular building or round tower such as exist in Scotland and the adjacent islands. The Burg of Mousa is a circular building 41 feet high; its walls, which are double, with a vacant space between them, diminish from 14 feet in width at the base to 8 feet at the summit, and inclose a central area; the door is 7 feet high. These structures are older than the Scandinavian invasions, and probably date almost from the bronze age.
- n. An encampment of a circular form; a ring fort. Also called Pecht's [Pict's] house or Pecht's castle.
- n. In the game of curling, one of the two circles drawn around the tee.
- n. A hazy circle around the sun or moon, considered as a presage of a change of weather.
- n. An obsolete spelling of brow.
Examples
“How would you rule if someone brough a case trying to overturn Roe v. Wade?" and "is socialism constitutional?”
“Are they all hypocrits for spending more than they brough in and then criticizing someone else for doing the same?”
“The party of 'Christian Values' has embraced hypocrisy and brough shame to America.”
“A Libyan man who was injured during clashes with pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces is brough into a hospital in the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya, Tuesday, March 8, 2011.”
“Because it should be obvious to anyone with a brain (that excludes you Yglesiais) that when people feel the benefits of policies from Washington DC, they tend to reward the people who brough those policies to them, witness Massachusetts.”
Matthew Yglesias » Raul Grijalva Flirting With History’s Greatest Monster Status
“We had always been told how important Gharyan was, we heard Gadhafi had brough in reinforcements, but when we attacked, it all dissolved," said Adel Seger, a rebel commander in the city.”
The Wall Street Journal: Joy Greets Rebels in Garrison Town Near Libya Capital
“This section has brough this point very sharply to mind.”
“Trolls are parrots for Fox — the blonde bimbos who inhabit Faux News say, on one hand that Obama has “done nothing;” he “wasted his first year” — then on the other hand, they say he is “dismantling America,” “destroying our economy” and has brough us “socialism.””
Think Progress » Right-wing Saudi dynasty endorses right-wing Fox News dynasty.
“In the person of George Washington, the man and his hour were met, and our country can continue to be thankful for that happy alignment of the planets that brough the man andhis times together.”
Your History Moment: Father of His Country « Third Point of Singularity
“I like to bring to attention a new word that was brough up by 'jjas' in the blog 'how big can they get'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brough’.
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Clouds
We owe our current names for clouds to Luke Howard. Wikipedia tells us that "Howard was not the first to attempt a classification of clouds—Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) had earlier proposed a ...
wane-cloud, stratus, cirrostratus, cirro-stratus, strato-cirrus, altostratus, salmon-cloud, cumulus, altocumulus lenti..., sonder-cloud, rain-cloud, nimbostratus and 205 more...
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Brow now
frontlet, Veronica, tres-tyne, rusine, beetle brow, Elphin, vibrissa, corrugator, brownie, nutbrown, brownian, browsing and 7 more...
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Ugh!
the ending, that is
clough, enough, cough, through, though, thorough, slough, chough, hough, tough, although, borough and 11 more...
Tweets
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michaelt42 I suppose that one use of brough is to reduce the character count of a tweet. Apr 16, 2012
michaelt42 Longfellow alluded to the brough in The Wreck of the Hesperus: Last night the moon had a golden ring and tonight no moon we see. That line constitutes the whole raison d'être of the poem. Apr 16, 2012
ruzuzu "n. A hazy circle around the sun or moon, considered as a presage of a change of weather."
--CD&C Apr 16, 2012