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ll on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the sen…

a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.

A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

m 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 lin…

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

To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. [Obs.] Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies. Bp. Hall.

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

t 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.

A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

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

To wreak; to avenge. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

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

Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or "streak."

Having blue veins or blue streaks.

o 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.