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To break. [Obs.] You will not pay for the glasses you have burst Shak. He burst his lance against the sand below. Fairfax (Tasso).

One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.

age has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.

To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. [Obs.] This speech calls him Spaniard. Beau. & Fl.

Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.

the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.

A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.

al form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. -- Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to…

The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. Goldsmith. The cant of any profession. Dryden.

A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.

A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.

A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.

A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.

gether hawsers or other ropes. -- Carrick bitts (Naut.), the bitts which support the windlass. Totten.

senting geometric quantities, invented by Descartes. -- Cartesian devil, a small hollow glass figure, used in connection with a jar of water having an elastic top, to illustrate the effect of the compression or expansion of air in changing the specific gravity of bodies. -- Cartesion oval (Geom.), a curve such that,…

nds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.