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A breaking in; inroad; invasion.

One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.

Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.

The European nuthatch.

The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak

A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.

The act of breaking out.

To throw out; to vomit. [Obs.] Skelton.

One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.

See Parbreak.

To break completely; to break in pieces. [Obs.] With nose and mouth to-broke. Chaucer.

One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.

To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust. [R.] 'T would wind-break a mule to vie burdens with her. Ford.

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the se…

r a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.

A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."