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To variegate; to checker; to streak. [R.] Freaked with many a mingled hue. Thomson.

Freakish. [Obs.] Pepys.

; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.

A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).

An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.

Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. Shak.

Causing overpowering sorrow.

One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.

The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.

A breaking in; inroad; invasion.

Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats.

One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.

Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.

The European nuthatch.

The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak

A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.

The act of breaking out.

To throw out; to vomit. [Obs.] Skelton.

(Oil Boring) A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.

One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.