a. [ From Break, v. t. ]
The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Ps. li. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]
Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Broken ground.
Broken line (Geom.),
Broken meat,
Broken number,
Broken weather,
a.
a. Having a ruptured belly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
. Abscess of the mammary gland. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. [ 1913 Webster ]
She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. [ 1913 Webster ]
The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
(Far.) The heaves. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Far.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place, such as a litter box;
a. Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not broken; continuous; unsubdued;
a. Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]