1. [n]  a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
2. [v]  put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"

1. \Brook\, n. [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. br[=o]c; akin to
   D. broek, LG. br[=o]k, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch
   marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it
   signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or
   brook, as well as a marsh. See {Break}, v. t.]
   A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
         The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land
         of brooks of water.                      --Deut. viii.
                                                  7.
         Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main
         of waters.                               --Shak.
   

2. \Brook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brooked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Brooking}.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS.
   br?can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr?hhan, G.
   brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br?ka, Goth. br?kjan, and L.
   frui, to enjoy. Cf. {Fruit}, {Broker}.]
   1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
   2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young
      men can not brook restraint. --Spenser.
            Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to
            the wicked ten?                       --Macaulay.
   3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] --Sir J. Hawkins.
   

a torrent. (1.) Applied to small streams, as the Arnon, Jabbok, etc. Isaiah (15:7) speaks of the "book of the willows," probably the Wady-el-Asha. (2.) It is also applied to winter torrents (Job 6:15; Num. 34:5; Josh. 15:4, 47), and to the torrent-bed or wady as well as to the torrent itself (Num. 13:23; 1 Kings 17:3). (3.) In Isa. 19:7 the river Nile is meant, as rendered in the Revised Version.