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To break; to violate. [Obs.] Shak.

Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary. Macaulay.

, especially by violence. [Obs.] Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking up. Foxe.

Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.

By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.

Fractional. [Obs.]

To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.

Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture. [R.]

The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture. Comminuted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts. -- Complicated fracture (Surg.), a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint. --…

Anfractuous; as, anfractuose anthers.

A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.

Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born. -- An*frac"tu*ous*ness, n.

A mazy winding.

Broken in pieces; severed. [Obs.]

To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a

emarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction. Whewell. Diffraction grating. (Optics) See under Grating. -- Diffraction spectrum. (Optics) See under Spectrum.

That produces diffraction.

Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole. [Obs.] Chapman.

Capable of being broken.[R.]