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Broad [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. brawd. [Latin gradior; a root of extensive use.]

2. Wide; extended in breadth, or from side to side, as distinguished from long, or extended from end to end. It is opposed to narrow; as a broad street; a broad table.

3. Wide; extensive; vast; as the broad expanse of ocean.

4. Large; as a broad mixture of falsehood.

5. Open; clear; not covered, confined or concealed; as in broad sunshine.

6. Gross; coarse; as broad mirth; broad nonsense.

7. Plain; tending to obscenity; as a broad comment.

8. Bold; not delicate; not reserved; as broad words.

9. Comprehensive.

10. It may be urged that the words in the constitution are broad enough to include the case.

11. BROAD as long, equal upon the whole.

Broad [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.

2. The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.

3. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

Broad [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

2. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.

3. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

4. Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.

5. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

6. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.

7. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

8. Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.

9. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.

Broad church Webster's Dictionary 1913

A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship.

Broad gauge Webster's Dictionary 1913

A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.

Broad seal Webster's Dictionary 1913

The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state.

Broad-ax [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Formerly, a military weapon. In modern usage, an ax for hewing timber.

Broad-backed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a broad back.

Broad-blown [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Full blown.

Broad-breasted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a broad breast.

Broad-brimmed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a broad brim.

Broad-brimmed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a broad brim.

Broad-cast [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cast or dispersed upon the ground with the hand, as seed in sowing; opposed to planting in hills or rows.

Broad-cast [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

By scattering or throwing at large from the hand; as, to sow broad-cast

Broad-cast [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Among farmers, a casting or throwing seed from the hand for dispersion in sowing.

Broad-cloth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A species of woolen cloth, so called from its breadth.

Broad-eyed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a wide view or survey; as broad-eyed day.

Broad-fronted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a broad front; applied to cattle.

Broad-horned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having large horns.

Broad-horned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having horns spreading widely.

Broad-leafed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having broad leaves.

Broad-leafed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.

Broad-leaved [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. BROAD-LEAVED ,

2. BROAD-PIECE, noun [broad and piece.] A piece of gold coin broader than a guinea.

Broad-leaved [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Broad-leafed

Broad-seal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The great seal of England; as a verb, not used.

Broad-shouldered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Broad across the shoulders.

Broad-side [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship, above and below, at the same time.

2. The side of a ship, above the water, from the bow to the quarter.

3. In printing, a sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only.

Broad-spreading [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Spreading widely.

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Genesis 29:7

And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

“Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

Exodus 27:1

And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

Numbers 16:38

The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”

Numbers 16:39

And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar:

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

Numbers 25:4

And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

2 Samuel 12:11

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.

2 Samuel 12:12

For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”

2 Samuel 22:37

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

1 Kings 6:6

The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.

2 Chronicles 6:13

For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,

Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

Nehemiah 3:8

Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.

Next to them, Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs, and next to him, Hananiah son of the perfumer made repairs. They fortified Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

Nehemiah 12:38

And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;

The second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,

Job 11:9

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

Job 36:16

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.

Psalms 18:36

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

Psalms 119:96

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.

Song of Solomon 3:2

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

Isaiah 33:21

But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.

Jeremiah 5:1

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”