B — Broad-horned to Brome grass (Part 6 of 6)

3. A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.

4. A dealer in secondhand goods. [Eng.]

5. A pimp or procurer. [Obs.] Shak.

Bill broker, one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange. — Curbstone broker or Street broker, an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [U.S.] — Exchange broker, one who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money. — Insurance broker, one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire. — Pawn broker. See Pawnbroker. — Real estate broker, one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage. - - Ship broker, one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc. — Stock broker. See Stockbroker.

Brokerage
(Bro"ker*age) n.

1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke.

2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.

Brokerly
(Bro"ker*ly), a. Mean; servile. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Brokery
(Bro"ker*y) n. The business of a broker. [Obs.]

And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting,
And tricks belonging unto brokery.
Marlowe.

Broking
(Bro"king) a. Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [Obs.]

Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown.
Shak.

Broma
(Bro"ma) n. [NL., fr. Gr. brw^ma food, bibrw`skein to eat.]

1. (Med.) Aliment; food. Dunglison.

2. A light form of prepared cocoa or the drink made from it.

Bromal
(Bro"mal) 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.

Bromate
(Bro"mate) n. (Chem.) A salt of bromic acid.

Bromate
(Bro"mate) v. t. (Med.) To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated camphor.

Bromatologist
(Bro`ma*tol"o*gist) n. One versed in the science of foods.

Bromatology
(Bro`ma*tol"o*gy) n. [Gr. food + -logy.] The science of aliments. Dunglison.

Brome
(||Brome) n. [F.] (Chem.) See Bromine.

Brome grass
(Brome" grass`) [L. bromos a kind of oats, Gr. .] (Bot.) A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.