BROME, noun [Gr. foetor.] A liquid of a deep red-brown color, very volatile, and having an ill smell, obtained from the mother-water of salt-works, and from the lixivia of the ashes of sea plants, by treating these solutions with chlorine. It has three times the density of water.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.