as opposed to the drill husbandry, denotes the method of cultivating corn, turnips, pulse, clover, the foreign grasses, and most other field-plants, that are not transplanted by sowing them with the hand; in which method they are scattered over the ground at large, and thence said to be sown in broadcast. This is called the old husbandry, to distinguish it from the drill, horse-hoeing, or new husbandry. See Agriculture.

BROAD piece, a denomination given to certain gold pieces broader than a guinea; particularly Carolus and Jacobus.

BROAD-side, in the sea-language, a discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship at the same time. A broad-side is a kind of volley of cannonade, and ought never to be given at a distance from the enemy above musket-shot at point-blank.