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 hence 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 Index.

BROAD-Piece, a denomination given to certain gold pieces broader than a guinea; particularly Carolus and Jacobuses.

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.