Brook
- v. t. A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
- v. t. To use; to enjoy.
- v. t. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
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.