broad (not very common in S.)
1.
free,
unrestrained
Mac. III. vi. 21
“broad words,”
Ham. III. iv. 2
“his pranks have been
too broad”
; widely diffused
Mac. III. iv. 23
“As broad and
general”
“as the casing air”;
arrogant
Troil. I. iii. 190
“in full as proud a
place As broad Achilles.”
2.
adv. freely,
unrestrainedly
Tim. III. iv. 65
“can speak b-er”
; fully, full-
Ham. III. iii. 81
“With all his crimes
-blown, as flush as May;
broad-awake,”
wide awake Tit. II. ii.
17 (Ff simply “awake”); “broad-spreading” wide-spreading R2 III. iv. 50.
