brechelt

An obsolete spelling of breech. 2. The place for a pause in a sentence or a breche2t, n. An obsolete spelling of breach. poetic verse; a cesura. That cæsura, or breathing - place. Sir P. Sidney, Defence of Poesy. If I be just, all praises must Be given to well- breathed Jilian Thrust. 2. Out of breath. Shirley, Hyde Park, iv. 3. Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret-room, a little breathed by the journey up. Dickens , Bleak House, xli. 3. In philol ., uttered with breath as distinguished from voice; surd or mute.-4. In compounds, having that capacity for breathing indicated by the prefix: as, short - breathed . breather (brē'Ther), n. 1. One who breathes or lives. She shows a body rather than a life; siol., a microscopic aperture for the escape or admi ion of air, as in the cuticle of plants. See stoma.-2. Same as breathing - hole, 2. breathing-space (brē'Thing-spās), n. A breathing-time; an intermi ion of exertion. breathing-time (bre'ning-tim), n. Pause; relaxation. IMG:content-2486.png:[blocks in formation] mat a, through which the insect obtains air at the surface of the water or semifluid filth in which it lives. The breathing-tube is also po e ed by certain adult heteropters. breathing-while (brē'Thing-hwil), n. An intermi ion of exertion; a breathing-time. Shak. Except when for a breathing - while at eve, Some niggard fraction of an hour, he ran Beside the river-bank. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. Brechites (bre-ki'tēz), n. [NL., βρέχειν , to wet: see rain , and cf. aspergillum .] Same as Aspergillum , 2. breck (brek), n . [ brekke , var. of breke , a break, breach, etc.: see breach , and cf. break , n ., brick1 , and brack1 , all ult. break , q. v.] 1. A break; breach; fracture. Tu er . Swiche a fairene e of a nekke Had that swete that bone nor brekke Nas ther noon seen. Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 940. 2t. A bruise. Kersey, 1708.-3t. A breach; a gap in a hedge.-4. [Also called break; prop. land broken up and allowed to lie fallow.] A piece of uninclosed arable land; a sheepwalk, if in gra . Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] -5. А large new-made inclosure. Grose. [Prov. Eng.] -6. A field. [Suffolk, Eng.] The bird's chosen breeding-place was in wide fieldsbrecks, as they are locally called - of winter-corn. Encyc . Brit ., IV. 578.