BROOM
\bɹˈuːm], \bɹˈuːm], \b_ɹ_ˈuː_m]\
Definitions of BROOM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
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any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
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finish with a broom
By Princeton University
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a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
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any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
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finish with a broom
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
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An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; - so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
By Oddity Software
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A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
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An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; - so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
By Noah Webster.
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A stiff brush used for sweeping floors; etc., orginally made from twigs of the broom-plant; a shrub, bearing large yellow flowers.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A wild evergreen shrub: a besom made of its twigs.
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To sweep, or clear away, as with a broom. "The poor old workpeople brooming away the fallen leaves." - Thackeray.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Sophora tinctoria, Spartium scoparium-b. Butcher's, Ruscus-b. Clover, Sophora tinctoria-b. Indigo, Sophora tinctoria-b. Rape, of Virginia, Orobanche Virginiana-b. Spanish, Spartium junceum-b. Yellow, Sophora tinctoria.
By Robley Dunglison
