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The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.

Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.

The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

A French gambling game somewhat like poker.

Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.

Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite.

Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

See Brokerage.

Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [Obs.] Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak.

fitable gold. Dryden. Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit. Hawthorne. When with downcast eyes we muse and brood. Tennyson.

A place where meat is smoked.

Stiff; precise. "Buckram dames." Brooke.

om any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.

to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.

st or incapacitate for action. [Low] He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years. Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote).

nnot be but nature hath some director, of infinite power, to guide her in all her ways. Hooker. There is no question but the king of Spain will reform most of the abuses. Addison.

ncidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.

A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm. Milton.