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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.

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak.

The broken noise of a goose or a hen.

erally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice.

Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

hus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.

a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it. -- Common carrier (Law.) See under Common, a.

Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.

Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

ubstitute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.

Broken in the back. [Obs.] He's chined, goodman. Beau. & Fl.

A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.

The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.

A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.

elf to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal servitude, that my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands Milton. Spain's mighty monarch, In gracious clemency, does condescend, On these conditions, to become your friend. Dryden.…

Broken in pieces; severed. [Obs.]