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A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.

Act of cutting by strokes. Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur

A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. What, fifty of my followers at a clap! Shak.

ct clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cyli…

Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.

A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]

oved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] Shak.

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.

lf 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.