Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Acre \A"cre\, n. [OE. aker, AS. [ae]cer; akin to OS. accar, OHG.
   achar, Ger. acker, Icel. akr, Sw. [*a]ker, Dan. ager, Goth.
   akrs, L. ager, Gr. ?, Skr. ajra. [root]2, 206.]
   1. Any field of arable or pasture land. [Obs.]

   2. A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840
      square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English
      statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The
      Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish
      1.62 of the English.

   Note: The acre was limited to its present definite quantity
         by statutes of Edward I., Edward III., and Henry VIII.

   {Broad acres}, many acres, much landed estate. [Rhetorical]
      

   {God's acre}, God's field; the churchyard.

            I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The
            burial ground, God's acre.            --Longfellow.

Broad \Broad\, a. [Compar. {Broader}; superl. {Broadest}.] [OE.
   brod, brad, AS. br[=a]d; akin to OS. br[=e]d, D. breed, G.
   breit, Icel. brei?r, Sw. & Dan. bred, Goth. braids. Cf.
   {Breadth}.]
   1. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed
      to {narrow}; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch
      broad.

   2. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad
      expanse of ocean.

   3. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
      ``Broad and open day.'' --Bp. Porteus.

   4. Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not
      limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and
      retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the
      precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.

            A broad mixture of falsehood.         --Locke.

   Note: Hence: 

   5. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

            The words in the Constitution are broad enough to
            include the case.                     --D. Daggett.

            In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way. --E.
                                                  Everett.

   6. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.

   7. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

            As broad and general as the casing air. --Shak.

   8. (Fine Arts) Characterized by breadth. See {Breadth}.

   9. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad
      joke; broad humor.

   10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.

   Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide,
         large, etc.; as, broad-chested, broad-shouldered,
         broad-spreading, broad-winged.

   {Broad acres}. See under {Acre}.

   {Broad arrow}, originally a pheon. See {Pheon}, and {Broad
      arrow} under {Arrow}.

   {As broad as long}, having the length equal to the breadth;
      hence, the same one way as another; coming to the same
      result by different ways or processes.

            It is as broad as long, whether they rise to others,
            or bring others down to them.         --L'Estrange.

   {Broad pennant}. See under {Pennant}.

   Syn: Wide; large; ample; expanded; spacious; roomy;
        extensive; vast; comprehensive; liberal.