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To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. Dunglison.

f quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.

Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture. [R.]

Causing fracture; breaking. [R.] H. Walpole.

e, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.…

Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.

Having fine, short, and sharp points on the surface; as, the hackly fracture of metallic iron.

To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

Immovable apparatus (Med.), an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable feasts (Eccl.), feasts which occur on a certain day of the year and do not depend on the date of Easter; as, Christmas, the Epiphany, etc.

Driven together or close. Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.

Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole. [Obs.] Chapman.

A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.

al pressure or stress. -- Lateral strength (Mech.), strength which resists a tendency to fracture arising from lateral pressure. -- Lateral system (Bridge Building), the system of horizontal braces (as between two vertical trusses) by which lateral stiffness is secured.

A mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in translucent trapezohedral crystals. It is a silicate of alumina and potash. It is found in the volcanic rocks of Italy, especially at Vesuvius.

g, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

an object as seen by the naked eye (that is, unmagnified); as, a macrograph of a metallic fracture.

incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones.

ysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.

s proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. Reduced iron (Chem.), metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hyd…