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noun

Brook n. A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. "The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water." "Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters."

verb

Brook v. t. (past & past part. brooked; pres. part. brooking)

To use; to enjoy. (Obs.)

To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. "Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten?"

To deserve; to earn. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Brook" Quotes from Famous Books

... was heavy with the smell of wet earth, the spray of the waterfall, the rank vegetation that flourished riotously along the margins of the brook, and the mingled perfumes of a thousand varieties of strange and gorgeously tinted flowers, as I laboriously climbed the steep side of the ravine, after crossing the brook, on my way to the more open country beyond. But this ...

— Overdue - The Story of a Missing Ship • Harry Collingwood

... rocky ford where a brook joined the Limestone. It was thirty miles to Littleton, farther to Las Animas, and his pack horse was tired. He cooked his meager meal, and unrolled his bed, and as on many a hundred other nights he lay down under the open sky. But his wakefulness was new. He could not get to sleep for ...

— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey

... that day, not only did Hindman reiterate the order to hurry that aroused Pike's ire but he encroached upon Pike's prerogative in a financial particular that was bound, considering Pike's experiences in the past, to make for trouble. Interference with his commissary Pike was determined not to brook, yet, on June 17, Hindman put N. Bart Pearce in supreme control at Fort Smith as commissary, acting quartermaster, and acting ordnance officer.[413] His jurisdiction was to extend over northwestern Arkansas and over the ...

— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

... I have just heard gives me a greater proof than ever of the sincerity of your affection; I could not brook your proposing to me a match with a prince of the earth: now I can scarcely forbear being angry with you for advising me to break the engagement I have made with the most puissant and most renowned monarch in the world. I do not speak here of an engagement between ...

— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous

... agony, my boy! I cannot see thee die; I cannot brook Upon thy brow to look, And see death settle on my cradle joy. How have I drunk the light of thy blue eye And could ...

— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard

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