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Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.

To unite or coalesce. [Obs.] Let them continue to coalite. Bolingbroke.

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

A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.

The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array. -- Commission of bankrupty, a commission apointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative…

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.]

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.]

One who adheres to the constitution of the country. Bolingbroke.

onsultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision. [Obs.] The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. Dryden.

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.

arly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I. Fosbroke.

ch stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant] Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice; hence, that which is fundamental imp…