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ficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type. Hudibras. Gates of hell. (Script.) See Gate, n., 4.

To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking. "Hem, and stroke thy beard." Shak.

se literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the Yih King, or "Book of Changes." S. W. Williams.

To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at). I think you have hit the mark. Shak.

To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.

Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i.

milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for. Broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jer. ii. 13. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. Shak.

Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]

to humilate. Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. Shak. The genius which humbled six marshals of France. Macaulay.

latile liquid. -- Ice master. See Ice pilot (below). -- Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. -- Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé. -- Ice petrel (Zoöl.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice. -- Ice pic…

A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

mmediate council." Shak. Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke. Milton.

time was fixed by statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189). Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since that date made it unnecessary to establish the original grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had…

al act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.

o lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing.

of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent. Impotent of tongue, her silence broke. Dryden.

From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.