Definition of break

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Break (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.

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Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..
Feldspath :: Feldspath (n.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish..
Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..
Breach :: Breach (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense..
Breach :: Breach (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale..
Outbreak :: Outbreak (n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.
Rout :: Rout (v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag..
Escapade :: Escapade (n.) Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.
Regma :: Regma (n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle..
Luncheon :: Luncheon (n.) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner..
Ragguled :: Ragguled (a.) Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge..
Disconcert :: Disconcert (v. t.) To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy..
Daybreak :: Daybreak (n.) The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
Smash :: Smash (v. i.) To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure..
Hiatus :: Hiatus (n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break..
Snap :: Snap (n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle..
Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..
Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore..
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time..
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