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Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.

The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.

To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.

To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. "Thou shalt part it in pieces." Lev. ii. 6. There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues. Keble.

The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

A break or paragraph in writing. He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke.

insurgents of 1784; -- so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. [Cant]

A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.

ical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded.

Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth.

The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.

nt or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces. Bring it out piece by piece. Ezek. xxiv. 6.

The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart. The will was then ductile and pliant to right reason. South.…

er power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. Bacon.

A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.

A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward. [U.S.] Poke bonnet, a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.

To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.