BPage 259
- English Word Break Definition To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.
- English Word Break Definition To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
- English Word Break Definition To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.
- English Word Break Definition To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.
- English Word Break Definition To fall out; to terminate friendship.
- English Word Break Definition An opening made by fracture or disruption.
- English Word Break Definition An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
- English Word Break Definition A projection or recess from the face of a building.
- English Word Break Definition An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.
- English Word Break Definition An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.
- English Word Break Definition An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.
- English Word Break Definition The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.
- English Word Break Definition A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
- English Word Break Definition A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.
- English Word Break Definition See Commutator.
- English Word Break-circuit Definition A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
- English Word Break-up Definition 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.
- English Word Breakable Definition Capable of being broken.
- English Word Breakage Definition The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
- English Word Breakage Definition An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use.
- English Word Breakbone fever Definition See Dengue.
- English Word Breakdown Definition The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
- English Word Breakdown Definition 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.
- English Word Breakdown Definition Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
- English Word Breaker Definition One who, or that which, breaks.
- English Word Breaker Definition Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
- English Word Breaker Definition A small water cask.
- English Word Breaker Definition A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
- English Word Breakfast Definition The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
- English Word Breakfast Definition A meal after fasting, or food in general.