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Broken with violence.

A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea. Lest evil tidings, with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear, should pierce too deep. Milton.

Rushing in or upon.

Jeopardy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia tædigera), used by the natives for many purposes.

Same as Jupon.

The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.

A sleeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips. Dryden.

A sauce. See Catchup.

The upper division of the European Triassic. See Chart of Geology.

The water thrush or accentor. [Local, West Indies]

The common buttercup.

. A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are forged solid. Knight.

A process practiced by Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. Called also the Bell-Krupp process.

To treat by, or subject to, the Krupp process.

Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.

A vagabond; a vagrant. [Written also landleaper and landloper.] "Bands of landloupers." Moltey.

Vagrant; wandering about.

ipally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Cha…

To beat or flog soundly. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby.