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A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.

The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille." Dryden. For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W. Scott.

To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak.

One who breaks or manages a horse. Shak.

Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.

water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. "Like a glass did break i' the rinsing." Shak.

To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

To be split or rent asunder. Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction. Woodward.

A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses. Massinger.

A heavy cylinder used to break clods. Mortimer.

A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus. --…

To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes. Crabb.

One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master.

broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete. thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. Daniel. To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. pope.

An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

. [Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock. Milton. The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into foam. Boyle.

rcasm; to bear hard on. (e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without making a break or beginning a new paragraph. -- To run out. (a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out Michaelmas. (b) To extend; to spread. "Insectile animals . . . run all out into legs." Hammond. (c) To expatiate; as, to r…

Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.

A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture. "By ruption or apertion." Wiseman.