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–noun

1.	thin soup of concentrated meat or fish stock.

2.	water that has been boiled with meat, fish, vegetables, or barley.

3.	Bacteriology. a liquid medium containing nutrients suitable for culturing microorganisms.

—Idiom

4.	broth of a boy, a sturdy youth.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME, OE; c. ON broth, OHG brod; akin to brew

]

—Related forms

brothy, adjective

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n. pl. broths (brôths, brŏths, brôthz, brŏthz)

The water in which meat, fish, or vegetables have been boiled; stock.
A thin, clear soup based on stock, to which rice, barley, meat, or vegetables may be added.
A liquid containing nutrients for culturing microorganisms: "[They] grew bacteria in a small flask of broth" (Horace Freeland Judson).

[Middle English, from Old English; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.]

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O.E. broþ, from P.Gmc. *bruthan, from verb root *bhreue- "to heat, boil, bubble, liquid in which something has been boiled" (cf. O.E. breowan "to brew;" see brew). Picked up from Gmc. by the Romantic and Celtic languages.

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broth
noun
1.	liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces; "she made gravy with a base of beef stock"
2.	a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock

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Broth

Brew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Brewing.] [OE. brewen, AS. bre['o]wan; akin to D. brouwen, OHG. priuwan, MHG. briuwen, br?wen, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. ? (for ??) a kind of beer. The original meaning seems to have been to prepare by heat. [root]93. Cf. Broth, Bread.]

1. To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]

2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation. "She brews good ale." --Shak.

3. To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.

Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely. --Shak.

4. To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot; to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.

Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver! --Milton.

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