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Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.

ch cane sugar (sucrose), under the action of heat and acids or ferments (as diastase), is broken or split up into grape sugar (dextrose), and fruit sugar (levulose); also, less properly, the process by which starch is converted into grape sugar (dextrose).

Not capable of being broken or violated; as, an inviolable covenant, agreement, promise, or vow. Their almighty Maker first ordained And bound them with inviolable bands. Spenser. And keep our faiths firm and inviolable. Shak.

Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken. His fortune of arms was still inviolate. Bacon.

Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious. "Him death's iron sleep oppressed." Philips.

Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshly broken. -- n.

Broken with violence.

A part broken off; a fragment. Bp. Hacket.

The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold. Knight. Jet propeller (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump. -- Jet pump, a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lif…

contrivance. Jury mast, a temporary mast, in place of one that has been carried away, or broken. -- Jury rudder, a rudder constructed for temporary use.

A temporary mast, in place of one that has been carried away, or broken.

A dry husk or covering. When the kex, or husk, is broken, he proveth a fair flying butterfly. Holland.

To be united closely; to grow together; as, broken bones will in time knit and become sound. To knit up, to wind up; to conclude; to come to a close. "It remaineth to knit up briefly with the nature and compass of the seas." [Obs.] Holland.

A block upon which ore is broken up.

A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute. [Scot.] Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands. Sir W. Scott.

ctories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange l…

To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

ank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down.

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.