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Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n.

an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. -- Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace. -- Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing b…

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.

the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.

Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.

Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement. "He could not debate anything without some commotion." Clarendon.

To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.

being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

s, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

te requirement that the townships must be squares. -- House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. -- Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.

, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old hear is cracked. Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon.

That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.

To disorder; to make shapeless. [Obs.] Shak.