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Broken; uneven. [Obs.] "Confragose cataracts." Evelyn.

nting together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

r tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together. Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. Boyle.

To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]

Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued. An untirable and continuate goodness. Shak.

ut break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. he can hear its continuous murmur. Longfellow.

Thoroughly bruised or broken. [Obs.]

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane. Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk. Sir T. North.

A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip. Will the stretch out to the crack of doom Shak.

Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

A steep, rugged rock; a cough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. From crag to crag the signal fiew. Sir W. Scott.

Full of crags, or steep, broken Into its cragged rents descend. J. Baillie.

A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.

The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.

Characterized by weakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey.

A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.

A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc. Raymond.

A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off. Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Luke xvi. 21.