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A broker who deals in stocks.

Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.

Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse. Youatt.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

riferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. "Anecdotical traditions." Bolingbroke.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

w. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbow. Fosbroke.

a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.

d to dust" by natural decay. Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

rprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore. Weale.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

bular form, containing sparkling particles. -- Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign or shop.