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bredth. n. Distance from side to side; width. (Paint.) Quality of having colors and shadows broad and ma ive, and an arrangement of objects suggesting largene and simple grandeur. [AS. brw.du, brad. See Broad] Break, brak, r. [hup. bkokk (hrfik) or ohs. brake tbrSk): p. p. nuoKK or broken; breaking.) To strain apart; to lay open by breaking; to disclose or divulge; to infringe or violate: to interrupt, terminate; to destroy the completene of to dash, shat» ter, or crush; to bruise; weaken or subdue; to impart cautiously; to tame; to make bankrupt; to destroy the official character of;.to cashier. — v. To come to pieces, burst asunder; to open from within; to come to view; to dawn to burst forth violently; to become weakened to lose health or strength to fail in busine ; to change the gait; to exceed the linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get- 76 BREAKFAST 60 natural power, as the voice; to fall out; to terminate friendship. — n. An opening made by fracture; an interruption; a pause; in writing or printing, a dash, or a blank or unfinished line; the dawn; an interruption of continuity: a large, four-wheeled carriage. [AS. brecan, D. breken, Ic. and Sw. brak a, to creak, crack: Dan. hrsekke, G. brechen, L. frangere, Gr. rhegnunai, to break.]— To break away. To disengage one's self abruptly; also, to become di ipated, as the clouds. — To down. To crush, overwhelm to come down by breaking to fail to yield to physical weakne or to grief. — To forth. To i ue suddenly, as sound, light, etc. to give vent to, — with in or unto. — To To force in; to train discipline. — To in, or in upon. To enter violently or unexpectedly. — To loose. To extricate one's self forcibly. — To of. To cause to reform, or abandon. — To off. To separate by breaking, interrupt, put an end to; to desist.— To open. To open by breaking. — To out To take or force out by breaking; to burst forth; to appear suddenly; — also, to show itself in cutaneous eruptions, —said of diseases; to become covered with cutaneous eruptions, — said of a patient. — To. over. To transgre ; disregard.— To up. To separate into parts; put an end to; to become separated; to be di olved; to disperse. —To with. To fallout; to part friendship.— 7b the back, neck, etc. To dislocate the same. — To bulk. To begin to unload to transfer in detail. — To b. cover. To burst forth from concealment. — To fast. To partake of food after abstinence, esp. in the morning — To ground. To open the earth, as for planting or for a foundation; to begin to execute any plan. (Naut.) To release the anchor from the bottom. — To the heart. To overwhelm with grief. — Tob.a house. (Law.) To violently remove any part of the house or its fastenings, with felonious intent. — To the To overcome obstacles and make a beginning. — To jail. To escape from jail. — a jest. To utter a jest. — To joints. To lay bricks, shingles, etc., so that one joint shall not coincide with another. — Tob.a path, road, etc To open a way through obstacles. — To upon a wheel. To stretch upon a wheel or frame, and break the limbs of, with an iron bar. — Break'able, a. Capable of being broken. — Breakage, -ej, n. A breaking allowance for things broken in transportation. — Break'down, n. Act of breaking down, as of a carriage; a riotous dance, terminating a ball. — Break'er, n. One who, or that which, breaks. (Naut.) A small water-cask for boats. — pi. Waves breaking into foam against the shore. — Break'bone fe'ver. (Med.) An acute febrile disease, epidemic in hot climates, marked by pains in the joints, and sometimes by an eruption dandy fever: dengue. — Break'-neck, n. A steep place, endangering the neck. — a. Producing dan- — §er, etc. rapid. water, n. Any contrivance, to reak the force of waves. — Brok^en, broken, p. a. Parted by violence; made weak; infirm; subdued; contrite. (Mil.) Degraded in rank cashiered.— Brok'enly. adv, — Brok'en-heart'ed, a. Crushed by — grief or despair. wind'ed, a. Having short or disordered breath.