Word Finder - brook

definition

To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.

definition

To earn; deserve.

definition

To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).

example

I will not brook any disobedience.   I will brook no refusal.   I will brook no impertinence.

On this matter Philip would brook no opposition.

The streams are well stocked with rainbow and brook trout.

After that other people brought water from a brook and sprinkled the earth.

It was a picture of a mill, near a beautiful brook.

When a solemn embassy of rebuke was sent to Zurich from a diet held at Lucerne, on the 26th of January 1524, the city replied that in matters relating to the Word of God and the salvation of souls she would brook no interference.

I "hooked" the apples, leaped the brook, and scared the musquash and the trout.

In 1676, during " Bacon's Rebellion," a party of Virginians under Bacon's command killed about 150 Indians who were defending a fort on a hill a short distance east of the site of Richmond in the " Battle of Bloody Run," so called because the blood of the slain savages is said to have coloured the brook (or " run ") at the base of the hill.

It was not in the mood of Japanes officialdom at that time to brook such assaults.

The name Brussel seems to have been derived from Broeksele, the village on the marsh or brook, and probably it was the most used point for crossing the Senne on the main Roman and Frank road between Tournai and Cologne.

Napoleon, who could brook no equal, was nourishing the secret hope that his confederate might be used as a docile subordinate in the realization of his own plans, and the confederate soon came to suspect that he was being duped.

Nantygof, the blacksmith's brook; Trefecca, the house of Rebecca; Llwyn Madoc, Madoc's grove; Pantsaeson, the Saxons' glen, &c. An historical origin is frequently commemorated, notably in the many foundations of the Celtic missionaries of the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries, wherein the word llan (church) precedes a proper name; thus every Llanddewi recalls the early labours of Dewi Sant (St David); every Llandeilo, those of St Teilo; and such names as Llandudno, Llanafan, Llanbadarn and the like commemorate SS.

Mancini, unable to brook exclusion, insisted, however, upon accompanying the king.

Among the attractions in this direction are Buttermilk Falls and ravine, on the outskirts of the city, Lick Brook Falls and glen and Enfield Falls and glen, the last 7 m.

Jackson could brook no criticism from one whom he had considered a friend; Calhoun, moreover, angered the president still further by his evident sanction of the social proscription of Mrs Eaton (q.v.); the political views of the two men, furthermore, were becoming more and more divergent, and the rupture between the two became complete.

But I am a patient man and the sun is shining, the brook that fronts my home on wheels is singing.

Other institutions include the Woolwich polytechnic and the Brook fever hospital, Shooter's Hill.

Hermon in Syria, overlooking a deep amphitheatre from which a brook flows to the Hasbani.

Meanwhile Henry had been developing a serious interest in politics, and he could brook no superior in whatever sphere he wished to shine.

Most important of all, however, he was the originator of "The Brook Farm Institute of Education and Agriculture."

The failure of Brook Farm left Ripley poor and feeling keenly the defeat of his project; but the event forced him at last to devote himself to that career of literary labour in which the real success of his life was achieved.

There are many good houses in the districts of Brook Green in the south-east, and Ravenscourt Park and Starch Green in the west.

The doctrine which in others seemed to produce all sorts of extravagances - communistic experiments at Brook Farm and Fruitlands, weird schemes of political reform, long hair on men and short hair on women - in his sane, wellbalanced nature served only to lend an ideal charm to the familiar outline of a plain, orderly New England life.

Sibson, the 19th century antiquarian, mentions finding the Road in the field to the west of the Smallbrook stream in Brook Meadow.

The Caravans The three modern caravans are set among spacious lawns, surrounded by trees and shrubs and overlooking the brook.

The field latrines were located by a small brook.

Ah little brook you'll miss us right well we know.

The mill brook exit can be seen along the footpath the old medieval Main Road from Abbey Street to Sixfields.

Brook believes that contraception should be available free to all who need it.

Mr Brook, 03 Oct 05 This car park is extremely convenient, within easy walking distance of the terminal building.

River Derwent and Bassenthwaite Lake Cumbria The Derwent represents brook lamprey Lampetra planeri in a high-quality, oligotrophic river in northern England.

In addition, the river supports a good range of native fish species, including brook lamprey and brown trout.

Earlier in the day he had spotted a very photogenic site where some young ponies were wading in a shallow brook.

A 2005 shot of the location where the Tottle Brook once fed into the paddling pool.

Brook Miller showed a pre-production model of the new Kia Sedona Carnival, fresh from its world premier at the Geneva Motor Show.

The remains of a village pump can be seen on the south side of the Brook.

The Clough Brook becomes a raging torrent in stormy weather.

Guides point out the best places to fish for the Bow River brook trout.

Stockton Brook Top Lock No 9. The old stables have been turned into a house, with rather unsightly conservatories.

It's delightful in this campground with a singing brook outside my door, serenading me as I work.

In ancient times a brook flowed down the valley of the Kidron, and it is possible that a stream flowed also through the Tyropoeon valley.

Separated from Lycabettus by a depression to the south-west, through which flows a brook, now a covered drain (probably to be identified with the Eridanus), stands the remarkable oblong rocky mass of the Acropolis (512 ft.), rising precipitously on all sides except the western; its summit was partially levelled in prehistoric times, and the flat area was subsequently enlarged by further cutting and by means of retaining walls.

This stream, which has hitherto been regarded as the eastern branch of the Ilissus rising at Kaesariane, has been identified by Dorpfeld with a brook descending from the south slope of Lycabettus and conducted in an artificial channel to the north-western end of the city, where it made its exit through the walls, eventually joining the Ilissus.

In the rivers and lakes pike, pickerel, white fish and sturgeon supply food for the natives, and the brook trout is found in the small mountain streams. The turtle and frog also appear.

The same idea had, however, occurred to Ladmirault, and he had called on the two nearest French cavalry divisions to put it into execution, and as the Prussians began to reach the plateau west of Mars-la-Tour and the Yron brook from the south, the French were deploying across it some two thousand yards to the north.

The problem of vibrating cords, which had been some time before resolved by Brook Taylor (1685-1731) and d'Alembert, became the subject of a long discussion conducted in a generous spirit between Bernoulli and his friend Euler.

Brook trout are found, especially in the streams in the western part of the state, and bass, pickerel, perch and smaller fish occur in the rivers and other inland waters.

The " transcendental movement," which sprang out of German affiliations and produced as one of its results the well-known community of Brook Farm (1841-1847), under the leadership of Dr George Ripley, was a Massachusetts growth, and in passing away it left, instead of traces of an organization, a sentiment and an aspiration for higher thinking which gave Emerson his following.

A small brook named Barri runs here into the sea, whence the place was formerly known in Welsh as Aber-Barri, but the name of both the river and the island is supposed to be derived from Baruch, a Welsh saint of the 7th century, who had a cell on the island.

To Washington, Military and Lincoln parks, the older ones near the heart of the city, there have been added Branch Brook (277 acres), Weequahic (265.8 acres), West Side (23 acres), and East Side (12.5 acres) parks.

They are distributed along both banks of the Kerwan, a brook which flows south through the Wadi-ed-Der to join the Zerka or Jabbok; but all the principal buildings are situated on the level ground to the right of the stream.