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Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.

A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.] Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. J. Philips.

Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. The cakes at tea ate short and crisp. Goldsmith.

Crisp; brittle; as. a crispy pie crust.

A brittle cake or other crisp pastry.

kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction. Hessian crucible (Chem.), a cheap, brittle, and fragile, but very refractory crucible, composed of the finest fire clay and sand, and commonly used for a single heating; -- named from the place of manufacture.

nts; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish. If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel. Arbuthnot. The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces. Prescott.

EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

Brittle; crisp. Wright.

Short; brittle; as, crup cake. Todd.

in carving. Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame Prior.

Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. [Obs.] Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself. Locke.

A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.

turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak.

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed. The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. Bacon.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.

Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.

Brittle. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Easily broken; brittle; crisp.