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ate or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.

The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

law, and for avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.

ithin the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.

To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.

A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.

face of another; as, rain falls on the earth. Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken. Matt. xxi. 44.

To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

t. With silver paved, and all divine with gold. Dryden. To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways. Gay.

imilar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.

A piece or fragment of a broken pot. Job ii. 8.

Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden.

If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay.

Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. Shak. The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, . . . pass without noise. Bacon. And the night rack came rolling up. C. Kingsley.

will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.

Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.

Refuse matter. [Obs.] Filled with any rubbish, rammel and broken stones. Holland.

each of which is of even height throughout the length of the wall; -- distinguished from broken range work, which consists of squared stones laid in courses not continuously of even height. -- To get the range of (an object) (Gun.), to find the angle at which the piece must be raised to reach (the object) without car…

fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear. Milton.