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Wind-break :: Wind-break (v. t.) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.

Break-circuit :: Break-circuit (n.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.

Resolution :: Resolution (n.) A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax..

Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall..

Fracture :: Fracture (v. t.) To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull..

Spurt :: Sourt (n.) Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt of jealousy..

Break :: Break (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop..

Reveille :: Reveille (n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares..

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..

Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision..

Crash :: Crash (v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof..

Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..

Ruction :: Ruction (n.) An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.

Exanthema :: Exanthema (n.) An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever..

Sewel :: Sewel (n.) A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place..

Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down..

Prong-hoe :: Prong-hoe (n.) A hoe with prongs to break the earth.

Infringe :: Infringe (v. i.) To break, violate, or transgress some contract, rule, or law; to injure; to offend..

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