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Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

6th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak.

A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.

A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.

The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.

or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown. Swift.

The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting. The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs. Tomlinson.

A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields. Burrill.

n, a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc. Their left hand does the calking iron guide. Dryden.

Camp meeting, a religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefty by Methodists. It usualy last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages. -- Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back. -- Flying camp (Mil.), a ca…

Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship. [Obs.]

A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.

n advertisement or business address. -- Card basket (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers.

Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.

That which is carried; burden; baggage. [Obs.] David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem. Acts. xxi. 15.

For full speed the short-circuited motor is cut loose from the other motor and is either left idle or (commonly) connected direct to the line.

e. Casting net, a net which is cast and drawn, in distinction from a net that is set and left. -- Casting voice, Casting vote, the decisive vote of a presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided. "When there was an equal vote, the governor had the casting voice." B. Trumbull. -- Cast…

or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyalin) on starch.

ght of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.