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tween the wheel A and apron g, and receives a final brushing at the point of delivery. Brooch. 1. An ornamental clasp with a pin for fastening the dress. The term corresponds to ouch (which see), under which name the ornamental clasp appears in the King James version of the Bible, Exodus XXVIII. 11, XXXIX. 18, and in other places. See Minshieu's Ductor in Linguas, 1617; Phillips's World of words, 1658. See also the same passages in the Bishop's and Coverdale's versions. In the Wickliffe version it is rendered hookes. The ouch or brooch was a clasp or button, and, in course of time, came to be fastened with a pin called a broach (Fr. broche), and hence the name brooch, of this form of ornamental clasp, has been attributed to the name of the pin (broach) by which it is fastened. This brooch or pin, probably as large as the corking-pin of Swift's time, of old formed a stiletto upon occasion, as among the Athenian dames, who made such pointed inquiries of the man who a