Broker: Definition and part of speech

Broker

v. t. A pimp or procurer.
v. t. One who transacts business for another; an agent.
v. t. An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own.
v. t. A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.
v. t. A dealer in secondhand goods.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
n. The business or employment of a broker.

n. Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; — also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.

a. Dressed in brocade.
a. Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc.

n. An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.

n. A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.
n. A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.