a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
1727, from broad + -en (1). The word seems no older than this date (discovered by Johnson in one of Thomson's season poems); broadened also is first found in the same poet, and pp. adj. broadening is recorded from 1850.