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  • English Word Breakfast Definition To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
  • English Word Breakfast Definition To furnish with breakfast.
  • English Word breakfasted Definition of Breakfast
  • English Word Breakfasting Definition of Breakfast
  • English Word Breaking Definition of Break
  • English Word Breakman Definition See Brakeman.
  • English Word Breakneck Definition A fall that breaks the neck.
  • English Word Breakneck Definition A steep place endangering the neck.
  • English Word Breakneck Definition Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.
  • English Word Breakwater Definition Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.
  • English Word Bream Definition A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
  • English Word Bream Definition An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
  • English Word Bream Definition A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.
  • English Word Bream Definition To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
  • English Word Breamed Definition of Bream
  • English Word Breaming Definition of Bream
  • English Word Breast Definition The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
  • English Word Breast Definition Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
  • English Word Breast Definition Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.
  • English Word Breast Definition The face of a coal working.
  • English Word Breast Definition The front of a furnace.
  • English Word Breast Definition The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
  • English Word Breast Definition The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
  • English Word Breast Definition To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
  • English Word Breast Definition A torus.
  • English Word Breast-deep Definition Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast.
  • English Word Breast-high Definition High as the breast.
  • English Word Breastband Definition A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.
  • English Word Breastbeam Definition The front transverse beam of a locomotive.
  • English Word Breastbone Definition The bone of the breast; the sternum.