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noun

Bromide n.

(Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical.

A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. (Slang) "The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary."

A conventional or trite saying; often used in the phrase "old bromide".

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"Bromide" Quotes from Famous Books

... I think," said her husband emphatically. "You are going straight to bed now, and you'll take ten grains of bromide before lying down. Evelyn, I appoint you nurse. Don't leave your mother ...

— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy

... Cappy interrupted, and turned to the British Consul: "This is an international affair, eh? See if I don't state the proposition in a nutshell—if I may be pardoned the bromide. This steamer is a German, and the proposition is to get her under the American flag so firmly that she'll stay there; then, I suppose, we're to charter her to the British Government, or one of Britain's ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... the biggest feat since Daniel and the lions' den, without a quiver. What's more, his magnetism or whatever they call it was such that the dashed animal, instead of pinning him by the leg, calmed down as if he had had a bromide, and rolled over on his back with all his paws in the air. If Jeeves had been his rich uncle he couldn't have been more chummy. Yet directly he caught sight of me again, he got all worked up and seemed to have only one idea in life—to ...

— My Man Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse

... "Bromide," said Dr. Tredgold. "Let him take it down and then hold his head steady for a few minutes. . . . Right! . . . Now the question is, where to bestow him? I can't answer for him when the dose wears off: but it's no case to ...

— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... excitement that he must cure, and as there are many remedies for insomnia, he tried those which, it seemed to him, were suitable to his case; but bromide of potassium, in spite of its hypnotic properties, produced no more effect than the over-working of the brain and body. When he realized this he replaced it with chloral; but chloral, which should create a desire ...

— Conscience, Complete • Hector Malot

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