BPage 258
- English Word Breadless Definition Without bread; destitute of food.
- English Word Breadroot Definition The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.
- English Word Breadstuff Definition Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
- English Word Breadth Definition Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.
- English Word Breadthless Definition Without breadth.
- English Word Breadthways Definition Breadthwise.
- English Word Breadthwinner Definition The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living.
- English Word Breadthwise Definition In the direction of the breadth.
- English Word Break Definition To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
- English Word Break Definition To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.
- English Word Break Definition To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
- English Word Break Definition To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.
- English Word Break Definition 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.
- English Word Break Definition To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.
- English Word Break Definition To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
- English Word Break Definition To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
- English Word Break Definition To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
- English Word Break Definition To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.
- English Word Break Definition To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
- English Word Break Definition To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.
- English Word Break Definition To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.
- English Word Break Definition To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.
- English Word Break Definition To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
- English Word Break Definition To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- English Word Break Definition To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
- English Word Break Definition To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.
- English Word Break Definition To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.
- English Word Break Definition To burst forth violently, as a storm.
- English Word Break Definition To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.
- English Word Break Definition To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.