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To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.

To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon. He had just time to get in and clap to the door. Locke Clap an extinguaisher upon your irony. Lamb.

To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. Clattering loud with clamk. Longfellow.

A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

below the rates established between competing lines. -- To cut short, to arrest or check abruptly; to bring to a sudden termination. "Achilles cut him short, and thus replied." Dryden. -- To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately. [Slang] -- To cut teeth, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce th…

in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. John Wilson.

Bent abruptly downward.

continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary.

A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.

Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.

ly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. -- To fling out, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. -- To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.

Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.

The state of being bent abruptly at an angle.

Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade. Hard cancer, Hard case, etc. See under Cancer, Case, etc. -- Hard clam, or Hard-shelled clam (Zoöl.), the guahog. -- Hard coal, anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous or soft coal. -- Hard and fast. (Naut.) See under Fast. -- Hard fi…

Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt. [R.] H. Bushnell.

Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in æstivation.

Bent or turned abruptly inwards, or toward the axis, as the petals of a flower.

The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to lose the idea of one part. Dryden.

Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.