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To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.

A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

ches united at one end. -- Knee breeches, breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened there; smallclothes. -- To wear the breeches, to usurp the authority of the husband; -- said of a wife. [Colloq.]

ss breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. -- Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.

A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.

Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior.

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

ally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized…

A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone.

The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.

To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.

A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.

vant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.

A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.

Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. [R.] Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.

The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.

Depressed; flattened. [Obs.] Though my nose be cammoused. B. Jonson