brook

To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.

brook no refusal

I will not brook any disobedience.

To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.

Yea, my Lord: how brooks your Grace the ayre, / After your late toſſing on the breaking Seas?

The girl’s spirit would brook a husband under no such conditions: she was not minded to run forward because Pen chose to hold out the handkerchief, and her tone, in reply to Arthur, showed her determination to be independent.

To earn; deserve.

A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters

The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.

A water meadow, or (in the plural) low, marshy ground.

A habitational surname from Middle English for someone living by a brook.

A surname from Hebrew, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh, “blessed”).

A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brooks.

A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.

A town in Newton County, Indiana, United States.