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Glucoside :: Glucoside (n.) One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the natur

Brittle :: Brittle (a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.

Martel De Fer :: Martel de fer () A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor..

Breakneck :: Breakneck (n.) A fall that breaks the neck.

Parbreak :: Parbreak (v. i. & t.) To throw out; to vomit.

Break :: Break (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey..

Mace :: Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor..

Plough :: Plough (v. t.) To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field..

Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush..

Divide :: Divide (v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.

Undertow :: Undertow (n.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Crisp :: Crisp (a.) Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow..

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To tear asunder; to break in pieces.

Spurt :: Sourt (n.) Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy..

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..

Spend :: Spend (v. i.) To break ground; to continue working.

Train :: Train (v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen..

Sever :: Sever (v. t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg..

Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men..

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