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Lithotriptist :: Lithotriptist (n.) One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.

Eruptive :: Eruptive (a.) Breaking out or bursting forth.

Picking :: Picking (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick..

Carronade :: Carronade (n.) A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side..

Tough :: Tough (superl.) Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough..

Breaker :: Breaker (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface..

Ruption :: Ruption (n.) A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.

Gap :: Gap (n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass..

Pestle :: Pestle (n.) An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.

Icequake :: Icequake (n.) The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold..

Peeper :: Peeper (n.) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Shive :: Shive (n.) A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking..

Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..

Friation :: Friation (n.) The act of breaking up or pulverizing.

Break :: Break (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods..

Rake :: Rake (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth..

Feldspath :: Feldspath (n.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled..

Malacosteon :: Malacosteon (n.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking..

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