Definition of break

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Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend..

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Sewel :: Sewel (n.) A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place..
Crashing :: Crashing (n.) The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.
Break :: Break (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking..
Breakfast :: Breakfast (v. i.) To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend..
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall..
Shim :: Shim (n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds..
Break :: Break (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption.
Osteoclasis :: Osteoclasis (n.) The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.
Dress :: Dress (v. t.) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal..
Piccage :: Piccage (n.) Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.
Trucebreaker :: Trucebreaker (n.) One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement..
Plough :: Plough (v. t.) To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field..
Strand :: Strand (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).
Haggard :: Haggard (a.) Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk..
Sunder :: Sunder (v. t.) To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends..
Fallow :: Fallow (n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land..
Roughrider :: Roughrider (n.) One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master..
Rupture :: Rupture (v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel..
Breach :: Breach (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture..
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