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who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron. The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly. Sir W. Scott.

Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. "Beggary or decrepit age." Milton. Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley.

The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.

eril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.

To devastate. [Obs.] Bolingbroke.

To become separated, broken up, dissolved, or scattered; especially, to quit military service by breaking up organization.

emove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover. The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty. Woodward.

To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. Bacon.

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

Not continuous; interrupted; broken off. A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey.

l (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due. -- Discount broker, one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker. -- Discount day, a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills. -- True discount, the interest which, added to a principal, will equal t…

One who discounts; a discount broker. Burke.

isorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government. The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it. Sir W. Scott.

The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.

To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.

(b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.] Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. Thackeray. -- To do withal, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] "I could not do withal." Shak. -- To do without, to get along without; t…

treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.]