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Brooklime – Brunanburgh

Brooklime

the English name of a veronica or speedwell, veronica beccabunga. The flowers are generally bright BROOKLINE blue, but in one variety they are pink or flesh-colored. The plant is common in ditches and water-courses. It is some- times used as a spring salad.

Broom Corn

a name for two plants of the order grammaceæ (grasses): (1) Sorghum vulgare. Its panicles are made into brooms for sweeping "and into (1) Sorghum vulgare. Its panicles are clothes brushes. (2) Sorghum saccharatum, of which a species of molasses or syrup is made.

Broom Rape

the English name of

Broom Tops

the fresh and dried does the lesser broom rape (orobanche

Brothers

a name given to three isolated mountains near the coast of New South Wales, between Harrington Inlet to the S. and Port Macquarie to the N. They are valuable as landmarks.

The name is also common to several groups of small islands.

Brougham

named after Lord Brougham, a four-wheeled closed carriage with a single inside seat for two persons, or a similar carriage with two seats, each accommodating two persons.

The seat for the driver is elevated.

Brougham

HENRY PETER (bröam or bröm), LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX, a British statesman, orator, and 夏 LORD BROUGHAM "Sketches of the Statesmen of the Time of George III." and "Lives of Men of Letters and Science." He died in Cannes, France, May 7, 1868.

Brown

JOHN, a Scotch physician and essayist, born in Biggar in 1810. He graduated in 1833 and began practice as a physician. His leisure hours were devoted to literature. His collected writings were published under the title of "Horæ Subsecive" and embrace papers bearing on medicine, art, poetry, and JOHN BROWN, ABOLITIONIST

Bruce

a family name distinguished in the history of Scotland .

Bruce

THOMAS, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, an English diplomatist and antiquary, born July 27, 1766. He was successively Envoy at Brussels, Berlin, and Constantinople, and made a valuable collection of ancient sculptures at Athens, which was purchased by Parliament for the British Museum in 1816, and is known as the Elgin Marbles. He died in Paris, Nov. 14, 1841.

Brucine

or BRUCIA (named from the plant B. antidysenterica, from which it is derived), an alkaloid found along with strychnine in nux vomica; also in false Angostura bark.

Brunanburgh

the scene of a battle in which Athelstan and the Anglo- Saxons defeated a force of Scots, Danes, etc., in 937; locality very doubtful.