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om Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. Macaulay.

viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.

or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). Aurora borealis (, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zenith from a dusky li…

who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. The autocrat of the breakfast table. Holmes.

r (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

nt solid mass. It is obtained from the balm of Gilead (or balsam) fir (Abies balsamea) by breaking the vesicles upon the trunk and branches. See Balm.

. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. We bethink a means to break it off. Shak.

. Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow.

to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

A man who breaks away from his party.

, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cros…

An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]

To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak.

of Break. [Arhaic] Tennyson.

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite.

Aptness to break; fragility.