Brockville
town, port of entry, and county-seat of Leeds co., Ontario, Canada; on the St. Lawrence river, below the Thousand Islands, and the Grand Trunk, the Canadian Pacific, and the Brockville and Sault Ste. Marie rail roads; 125 miles S. W. of Montreal. It is a port of call for the St. Lawrence steamers. There are manufactories of agricultural implements, gloves, cigars, leather, sulphuric acid, and foundry and machine shop products. It is named for Gen. Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812), an English officer killed in the battle of Queenstown. Pop. about 10,000.
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Brocot Suspension
The method of suspending a pendulum which is in use on nearly all mantel clocks of modern make, by means of which they may be regulated from the front of the dial by means of a key.
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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.
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Brohou, Jean
A physician of Coutarces, in the seventeenth century. He was the author of an Almanack or Journal of Astrology , with prognostications for the year 1572, Buer (Rouen, 1571), and a Description d'une Merveilleuse et Prodiigeuse Comète, with a treatise on comets, and the events they prognosticate (Paris, 1568).
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Broker
an agent employed to make bargains and contracts between other persons, in matters of commerce, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. The broker is strictly a middleman, or intermediate negotiator between the parties, finding buyers or sellers as required. He does not act in his own name, nor has he generally the custody of the goods in which he deals, thus differing from a factor, and he cannot sell publicly like an auctioneer. Besides ordinary commercial brokers, there are several other sorts, such as stockbrokers, share-brokers, ship-brokers, insurance-brokers, bill-brokers, etc.
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Bromberg
a town in the Polish province of Posen, on the Brahe, 6 miles from its influx to the Vistula, and 99 miles S. S. W. of Danzig by rail. Before the World War it had iron foundries, machine shops, and manufactures of cloth and paper, distilleries, breweries and corn mills. There was a considerable provincial trade both by shipping and railway. The Bromberg canal, 17 miles long, by uniting the rivers Netze and Brahe, connects the Oder and Elbe with the Vistula. Pop. about 58,000.
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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. :
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Bromeliacee
bromelworts, an order of endogenous plants, placed by Dr. Lindley under his narcessal alliance. The calyx is sometimes herbaceous looking, but sometimes colored. Petals, three, colored; stamina, six or more; ovary, ary, three celled, many-seeded, as is the fruit, which is capsular or succulent. The stem is wanting or, if present, very short. Lindley estimated the known species at 170, all American. They have been introduced into Africa, the East Indies, and elsewhere. The well known pineapple is the bromelia ananas. Ropes are made in Brazil from another species of the same genus. All the species of bromeliaceæ can exist without contact with the earth.
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Bromide
a combination of bromine with a metal or a radical. Bromides are soluble in water, except silver and mercurous bromides; lead bromide is very slightly soluble. They are detected in analysis by the following reactions: Argentic nitrate gives a yellowish precipitate of AgBr, insoluble in dilute nitric acid, and soluble in strong ammonia. Chlorine liberates bromine, and, if the liquid is shaken up with ether, a yellow ethereal solution floats on the liquid. Heated with sulphuric acid and MnO2, bromides yield vapors of Br, which turns starch yellow.
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Bromus
a genus of atte attended by protrusion of the eyeballs, grasses having two unequal glumes and anemia, and palpitation. two herbaceous glumelles, the outer one bifid and with an awn from below the
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Bronchi
the two branches or windpipe N. W. of Catania. The lava streams of 1651 and 1843 lie on either side, but the divides in the chest, one going to the district around is fertile, and produces right lung, the other to the left, and wine. Lord Nelson was created Duke of ramifying into innumerable smaller Bronté by the Neapolitan Government in 1799.
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Bronchocele
an indolent tumor on the forepart of the neck caused by enlargement of the thyroid gland, and
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Bronco
. See Mustang
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Broni
a town of northern Italy, extremity. The seeds of B. mollus, or with mineral springs, 11 miles S. E. of soft brome grass, when eaten by man Pavia. Near by is the castle of Broni, animals, produce giddiness, where Prince Eugène obtained a victory and they are said to be fatal to poultry. over the French in 1703. B. secalinus, or smooth rye brome grass, BRONTÉ (bron'te), a town of Sicily, is common in rye and wheat fields. at the W. base of Mt. Etna, 33 miles
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Bronte, Charlotte
bron'te, Charlotte (1816-1855), an English writer. She was one of three sisters, daughters of an English clergyman, and was for a time a governess in Brussels. She wrote four books, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette, Jane Eyre is celebrated; the rest are forgotten or are of interest simply because they were written by the author of Jane Eyre. It is said that any writer can produce one successful novel, but that only a genius has material for more than one. It is a small collection of fiction that cannot afford a place for Jane Eyre. Miss Bronte was married in 1854 to the Rev. A. B. Nichols, her father's curate.
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Brontosaurus Excelsus
a species of herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and Jurassic periods. It is supposed to have been a hippopotamus-like animal, and to have lived on vegetation in the waters. It was about 60 feet BRONTOSAURUS EXCELSUS long, and 15 feet high at the middle of the body, and, although its body was of this great size, it had one of the smallest heads known among vertebrates.
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