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Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.

To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. The victim broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. Prescott.

A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors. Bone breccia, a breccia containing bones, usually fragmentary. -- Coin breccia, a breccia containing coins.

Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance. The brecciated appearance of many specimens [of meteorites]. H. A. Newton.

A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. Bacon.

Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.

r cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.

A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part. "In one cantle of his law." Milton. Cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out. Shak.

A piece; a fragment; a corner. Dryden.

diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.

ompact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.

A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

Fragmental; made up of brokas, sandstone is a clastic rock.

a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

A piece; a fragment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.

containing many, consonants. No Russian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore.

Tending to tear or pull up. [Obs.] The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force. Todd & Bowman.