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act as procurer in love matters; to pimp. [Obs.] We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said. Fanshawe. And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honor of a maid. Shak.

Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.

Abscess of the mammary gland.

The heaves.

Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.

Having a ruptured belly. [R.]

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

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.

, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story.

The business or employment of a broker. Burke.

Mean; servile. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The business of a broker. [Obs.] And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.

One who negotiates the discount of bills.

Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

A style of four-legged table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period.

Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.

A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.