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n. [ NL., fr. Gr. brw^ma food, bibrw`skein to eat. ] 1. (Med.) Aliment; food. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bromine + aldehyde. ] (Chem.) An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcohol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bromine. ] (Pharm.) A colorless or white crystalline compound, (CH2)6N4C2H5Br, used as a sedative in epilepsy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Bromine + aniline. ] (Chem.) A substance analogous to chloranil but containing bromine in place of chlorine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of bromic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Med.) To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in the science of foods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, food + -logy. ] The science of aliments. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Chem.) See Bromine. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. bromos a kind of oats, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Bot.) A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Named after Olaf Bromel, a Swedish botanist. ] (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though terrestrial, is also of this family. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary. Gelett Burgess. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. a conventional or trite saying; -- often used in the phrase “old bromide”. [ PJC ]

a. 1. of or pertaining to bromide (definition 2). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. conventional or trite; repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse -- of sayings, assertions, or discourses; as, bromidic sermons.
Syn. -- commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Bromide + idiom. ] A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides{ 2 }; a bromide{ 3 }. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

{ or }. (Photog.) A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. See Bromate, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; bad smell, stink. Cf. Brome. ] (Chem.) One of the halogen elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Photog.) To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a silvered plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bromley Hill, near Alston, Cumberland, England. ] (Min.) A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bromine + formyl. ] (Chem.) A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform, with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar to chloroform in its effects. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Bromine + gelatin. ] (Photog.) Designating or pertaining to, a process of preparing dry plates with an emulsion of bromides and silver nitrate in gelatin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Bromine + iodine + -ism. ] (Med.) Poisoning induced by large doses of bromine and iodine or of their compounds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Photog.) Treated with bromides and iodides. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Abbr. fr. tribromophenol. ] (Pharm.) A crystalline substance (chemically, tribromophenol, C6H2Br3OH), used as an antiseptic and disinfectant. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ G. brompikrin; brom bromine + pikrinsäure picric acid. ] (Chem.) A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin. [ Spelt also brompikrin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ from Brompton Hospital, London. ](Pharmacy) A mixture containing morphine and cocaine, and sometimes other narcotic substances, such as heroin, in an alcoholic solution, administered mostly to terminally ill patients, especially cancer patients, to relieve severe pain. Its use is not universally accepted as good medical practice. [ PJC ]

n. See Bromide. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bromine + Gr. &unr_; silver. ] (Min.) Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also bromargyrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Fiber, and -oma. ] (Med.) A tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue, or of same modification of such tissue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Same as Hydrobromide. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hydro-, 2 + bromic. ] (Chem.) Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hydrobromic acid (Chem.), a colorless, pungent, corrosive gas, HBr, usually collected as a solution in water. It resembles hydrochloric acid, but is weaker and less stable. Called also hydrogen bromide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A compound of hydrobromic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark.
Syn. -- Mercurochrome. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; rain + -meter: cf. F. ombrométre. ] (Meteorol.) An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain gauge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Oxy- (a) + bromic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of oxygen and bromine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of perbromic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. per- + bromic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid, HBrO4, of bromine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than any other bromide of the same substance or series. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Poly- + bromide. ] (Chem.) A bromide containing more than one atom of bromine in the molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a god + &unr_; food, fr. &unr_; to eat: cf. F. théobrome. ] (Bot.) A genus of small trees. See Cacao. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from cacao butter (from the Theobroma Cacao), peanut oil (from Arachis hypogaea), etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloidal ureide, C7H8N4O2, homologous with and resembling caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao and chocolate (from Theobroma Cacao) as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also dimethyl xanthine. [ 1913 Webster ]