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A crossbow. Fosbroke.

an arow; cuneiform. Arrowheaded characters, characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequent…

philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.

to dust" by natural decay. Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

prise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

To stun; to stupefy. No puissant stroke his senses once astound. Fairfax.

Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore. Weale.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

A blow; a stroke. [Scot.] H. Miller.

Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]

ular form, containing sparkling particles. -- Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign or shop.

Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

A sign made without words; a beck. "At the first beckon." Bolingbroke.

t at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belong…

Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. [Obs.] Wright. Bowmen bickered upon the bent. Chevy Chase.

A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel. Encyc. Brit.