Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..

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Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
Yaw :: Yaw (v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works..
Ruction :: Ruction (n.) An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.
Break-up :: Break-up (n.) Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government..
Boutade :: Boutade (n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
Indican :: Indican (n.) A glucoside obtained from woad (indigo plant) and other plants, as a yellow or light brown sirup. It has a nauseous bitter taste, a decomposes or drying. By the action of acids, ferments, etc., it breaks down into sugar and indigo. It is the source of natural indigo..
Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush..
Dejeuner :: Dejeuner (n.) A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation..
Brittle :: Brittle (a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Breakable :: Breakable (a.) Capable of being broken.
Alligator :: Alligator (n.) a rock breake.
Burst :: Burst (v. t.) To break.
Breakfast :: Breakfast (v. i.) To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down..
Uprush :: Uprush (n.) Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava..
Disintegrate :: Disintegrate (v. t.) To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences..
Destroy :: Destroy (v. t.) To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
Parbreak :: Parbreak (n.) Vomit.
Erumpent :: Erumpent (a.) Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.
Sulk :: Suleah fish () A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah..
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