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Stripped of a roof, or similar covering. Broken carriages, dead horses, unroofed cottages, all indicated the movements. Sir W. Scott.

A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. [Obs.]

A broker. [Obs.] Caxton.

ter by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is reset, the reading may be made at leisure.

gold crown with palisades, bestowed upon the soldier who first surmounted the rampart and broke into the enemy's camp.

e vicinage. "To summon the Protestant gentleman of the vicinage." Macaulay. Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of vicinage and good neighborhood. Sir W. Scott.

Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.

k. Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels, of a nation. Bolingbroke.

Capable of being violated, broken, or injured. -- Vi"o*la*bly, adv.

A comma. [R.] In the MSS. of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a cæsura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule. Hallam.

fidelity; a pledge of love or affection; as, the marriage vow. Knights of love, who never broke their vow; Firm to their plighted faith. Dryden.

A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war. R. H. Dana, Jr.

nt-edged sword used as a foil. Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head. Beau. & Fl. Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters. Sir T. Browne.

of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted." [Brokers' Cant]

A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow. These water galls, in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent. Shak. False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. Walpole.

Used to the way; broken. [R.] A horse that is not well wayed; he starts at every bird that flies out the hedge. Selden.

Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.

To cause to wither; to wilt. [Obs.] Mot thy welked neck be to-broke [broken]. Chaucer.

- used elliptically as a noun. I was adopted heir by his consent; Since when, his oath is broke. Shak.

To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers. Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him Latimer.