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An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse. Shak.

To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account. [Cant]

A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market. [Cant]

destroy. As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines. Milton. Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. W. Irwing.

use to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse. Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths. Shak.

A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews.

) To scrape the ground with the sole of the club, before striking the ball, in making a stroke.

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker. [Obs.] ryden.

sness; negligence; heedlessness. He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security, Grows strong and great in substance and in power. Shak.

g as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition. The fuel is sprayed into an iron box (called a hot bulb or hot pot) opening into the combustion chamber, and heated for ignition by a blast-lamp until the engine is running, when it i…

s; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Whitehead.

To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.

In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11.

l, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. Shak. The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board. E. Arnold.

To be broken into fragments; to fal Some fragile bodies break but where the force is; some shatter and fly in many places. Bacon.

" Shak. -- Ship breaker, one who breaks up vessels when unfit for further use. -- Ship broker, a mercantile agent employed in buying and selling ships, procuring cargoes, etc., and generally in transacting the business of a ship or ships when in port. -- Ship canal, a canal suitable for the passage of seagoing vesse…

Broken into an earthen dish and baked over the fire; -- said of eggs.

One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." Milton.