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The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.

A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies. Ford.

ow-tasted Burgundy." Thomson. The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light. Percival.

lled also Young's modulus. -- Modulus of rupture, the measure of the force necessary to break a given substance across, as a beam, expressed by eighteen times the load which is required to break a bar of one inch square, supported flatwise at two points one foot apart, and loaded in the middle between the points of su…

Any irksome sameness, or want of variety. At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention. W. Irving.

A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

Having many streaks.

obstinacy; contumacy. "I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck." Deut. xxxi. 27. -- To break the neck of, to destroy the main force of. "What they presume to borrow from her sage and virtuous rules... breaks the neck of their own cause." Milton. -- To harden the neck, to grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse…

One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence. [Cant] Arbuthnot.

Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

ated to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. ban; E. stone, AS. stan; E. broke, AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. dufe; E. toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre. The letter o has several vowel sounds, the principal of which are its long sound, as in bone, its short sound, as in nod, and the s…

n, or defeat; resistance. The counterpoise of so great an opposition. Shak. Virtue which breaks through all opposition. Milton.

Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.

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]