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east; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton.

A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.

r. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.

account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting. Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. Macaulay. Broken ground. (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Broken line (Geom.), t…

ling a bull; male; large; fierce. Bull bat (Zoöl.), the night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cyl…

A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.

ery large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.

To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom. As a bittern bumps within a reed. Dryden.

despatch, Importunes personal conference. Shak. What business has the tortoise among the clouds L'Estrange.

Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

(Mus.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.

Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming. Blue Walden rolls its cannonade. Ewerson.

Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."

ure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell.

Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.