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bruit

WordNet
  1. (v) bruit
    tell or spread rumors "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Bruit
    (Med) An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
  2. Bruit
    Report; rumor; fame. "The bruit thereof will bring you many friends."
  3. Bruit
    To report; to noise abroad. "I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) bruit
    Report; rumor; fame.
  2. (n) bruit
    A noise; a loud sound; a din.
  3. (n) bruit
    [Mod. F., pron. brwē.] In pathology, the name given to sounds of various nature, in general abnormal, produced in the body, or evoked in it, by percussion or succussion: used to some extent in English.
  4. bruit
    To announce with noise; report; noise abroad.
  5. bruit
    To give forth sound; sound.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Bruit
    brōōt noise: something noised abroad: a rumour or report
  2. (v.t) Bruit
    to noise abroad: to report: to celebrate
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. bruit, brut, noise, bruit, F. bruit, fr. LL. brugitus,; cf. L. rugire, to roar; perh. influenced by the source of E. bray, to make a harsh noise, Armor. brud, bruit

Usage in the news

Word of John's imminent dismissal was something for his co-workers to bruit about around the water cooler. kqsfm.com

They Bruit Horses, Don't They. online.wsj.com

Usage in scientific papers

Auguste, D. Boyer, and A. Cavaillou of the Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis), Rustrel-Pays d'Apt, France for their many significant contributions to this measurement.
A CF3I-based SDD Prototype for Spin-independent Dark Matter Searches

The first site, accessible from the Rustrel village, is occupied by the LSBB laboratory ( Le Laboratoire Souterrain Bas Bruit; www.lsbb.univ-avignon.fr ) The second site is located near the Reilhanette village in the Mont Ventoux foothills.
Possible Observation of Nuclear Reactor Neutrinos Near the Oscillation Absolute Minimum

Usage in literature

Even in the few hours that had elapsed since the meeting the rumor of what he had said and done had been bruited about. "That Lass O' Lowrie's" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A dozen names were bruited about. "Charles Frohman: Manager and Man" by Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

Carefully she went over all the things that would be lost if this story should be bruited abroad. "The Wind Before the Dawn" by Dell H. Munger

Meanwhile the deserters had bruited about the information of Mr. Landor's intention of getting to Lhassa. "An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet" by A. Henry Savage Landor

Gossip was rife, and in the taverns 'twas bruited that my uncle's conjecture had come nighest to the bull's-eye. "Border Ghost Stories" by Howard Pease

Thus far had I won when I heard a little bruit behind me, and looking up, as I guessed, I saw Jack, over my shoulder. "In Convent Walls" by Emily Sarah Holt

An hour gone, we being in the church, when we heard that mighty bruit from the City, was Queen Mary proclaimed in Cheapside by the Council. "Robin Tremayne" by Emily Sarah Holt

Even in the few hours that had elapsed since the meeting, the rumor of what he had said and done had been bruited about. "Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7" by Various

All this contrasted strangely with the dark, mysterious stories which were bruited abroad, touching some passages in his early life. "The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851" by Various

His fame, bruited far and wide, soon aroused the jealousy of many of the neighboring chiefs and medicine men. "The Land of the Miamis" by Elmore Barce

Usage in poetry
O bruit doux de la pluie
Par terre et sur les toits!
Pour un coeur qui s'ennuie
O le chant de la pluie!
And the fame of this lily was bruited
'Mong men ever more and more;
They came, and they saw, and uprooted
Its life from the cottage door.
The bruit de rape and the bruit de scie
And the bruit de diable are all combined;
How happy Bouillaud would be,
If he a case like this could find!
At eye's envious corner
Crow's-feet copy veining on a stained leaf;
Cold squint steals sky's color; while bruit
Of bells calls holy ones, her tongue
Backtalks at the raven
Through the reverberant Eden-ways * the bruit of his great advent
driven,
Back from the fulgent justle and press * with mighty echoing so was
given,
As when the surly thunder smites * upon the clanged gates of Heaven.
And in after years to Cocheco came
The bruit of a once familiar name;
How among the Dutch of New Netherlands,
From wild Danskamer to Haarlem sands,
A penitent soldier preached the Word,
And smote the heathen with Gideon's sword!