noun

• (uncountable, archaic) Hearsay, rumour; talk; (countable) an instance of this.
  "[R]ememberyng yoʳ accustumable proudent demeanoʳ as well in the atteyning assurid knowledge of the intended purpose of the Scotts, from tyme to tyme, by suche good esp'iell and intelligence that ye have had among the said Scotts, as of the bruits and newes occ'rant amongs them, it is the more mervailed, that if eyther any such attemptats have been made by the said Scotts upon the king's subjects, or that any such bruits be in Scotland of the said duke's thider comyng, that ye have not advertised the king's highnes or me thereof before this tyme; [...]"
• (countable, obsolete) A clamour, an outcry; a noise.
  "There is no healing of thy bruiſe: thy wound is grieuous: all that heare the bruit of thee, ſhall clap the hands ouer thee: for vpon whom hath not thy wickedneſſe paſſed continually?"

verb

• (transitive, archaic in British, current in the US) To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.
  "And if it be to be beleued, as bruted is by fame. / A day did paſſe without the Sunne."

noun

• (medicine) An abnormal sound in the body heard on auscultation (for example, through using a stethoscope); a murmur.
  "Gentlemen,—At the close of my last lecture I asserted that the bruit of the heart does not reside in the organ itself, that is to say, is not produced by any mechanism in the interior of the heart, or by a concurrence of circumstances independent of the surrounding organs. I showed you this clearly in the heart of the swan, whose sternum we removed. Upon opening the pericardium and placing the ear close to the heart, or even employing the stethoscope, no bruit or sound of any kind was to be distinguished."