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Broad Bill – Bronzing

Broad Bill

a species of wild duck, anas clypeata: the shoveler; also the spoon bill, platalea leucorodia.

Broad Mountain

a mountain a ridge of Pennsylvania, in Carbon and Schuylkill counties, about 50 miles long.

BROADWAY

Broad River

a river of North Carolina, rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and making a junction with the Saluda at Columbia to form the Congaree; about 200 miles long.

Broad Top Mountain

a mountain in Bedford and Huntington counties, Pennsylvania; extensively mined for anthracite coal. Height about 2,500 feet. Below Union

Brocade

a kind of silken stuff, variegated or embossed with gold or BROCADE, a kind of silken stuff, or embossed with gold or silver flowers or other ornaments. The manufacture of brocades was established at Lyons in 1757. the Hartz Mountains, in Prussian Sax- BROCKEN, the culminating point of The phenomenon m" is

Brockton

a city in Plymouth co.,

Broccoli

late variety of

Brogue

a brogan; a stout, heavy leather shoe, resembling in form the French sabot. Applied generally to the pedal coverings of the Scottish Highlanders and the Irish peasantry. It is also applied to a corrupt dialect, or mode of pronunciation; as, spoken with the Irish brogue.

Brome Grass

the English book name for the genus BROMUS (q. v.).

BROMELIA (named after BROMELIUS, who published a Gothic flora), a genus of plants, the typical one of the order bromeliaceӕ.

BROMINE

Bronchocele

an indolent tumor on the forepart of the neck caused by enlargement of the thyroid gland, and attended by protrusion of the eyeballs, anæmia, and palpitation.

Bronzed Skin

a peculiar discoloration of the skin frequently associated with Addison's disease, which is a disease of the supra-renal capsules. BRONZE WING and BRONZE PI- GEON, names given in the Australian BRONZING colonies to certain kinds of wild pigeon, on account of the lustrous bronze color with which their wings are variously marked.

Bronzing

the process of giving a bronze-like or antique metallic appearance to the surface of metals or plaster casts. The processes vary; they may be classed as coating with a melted alloy; coating with a metal in paste, solution, or vapor; corrosion; coating with a gum, application of bronze powder, and painting.