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Show twenty in breadt and in heigh Bacon near fifty; having a door in the midft The river Ganges, according unto later rela tions, if not in length, yet in breadth and depth Brogon may excel i Then all approach the flain with vaft furprize Admire on what a breadth of earth he lies. Dryd In our Gothick cathedrals, the narrownefs o the arch makes it rif opens it in breadth g% BREAK th in height lownef Addifon @. a. pret. I broke, or brake part. pafl. broke, or &roken. [bpeccan Saxon. 1. To part by violence ‘When I brake the five loaves among five thoufand, how many bafkets of fragments took ye up Mark Let us break their bands afunder, and caft awa Plalms their cords from us A bruifed reed thall he not break Ifaiab See, faid the fire, how foon 'tis done The fticks he then broke one by one So ftrong you'll be, in friendthip tied So quickly broke, if you divide 2. To burft, or open by force Milton Mofes tells us, that the fountains of the eart were broke open, or clove afunder. Burnet's Theory Into my hand he forc'd the tempting gold While I with modeft firuggling droke his hold. Gay 3. To pierce ; to divide, as light divide darknefs 4. To deftroy by violence ‘This is the fabrick, which, when God breaket down, none can build up again Burnet's Theory batter ; t make breaches or gap in I'd give bay Curtal, and his furniture My mouth no more were broken than thefe boys And writ as little beard Shakefpeare 6. To crufh or deftroy the ftrength of th body O father abbot An old man broken with the ftorms of ftate 7+ To fink or appal the {pirit The defeat of that day was much greater than i then appeared to be; and it even broke the heart o his army Clarendon I'll brave her to her face T'll give my anger its free courfe againft her Thou fhalt fee, Pheenix, how Il break her pride Philips 8. To cruth ; to fhatter Your hopes without are v .nifh'd into fmoke Your captains taken, and yout armies 4roke. Dryd 9. To weaken the mental faculties Behold young Juba, the Numidian prince With how much care he forms himfelf to glory And breaks the fiercenefs of his native temper Addifon 11. To make bankrupt The king's grown bankrupt, like a broken man Shake[peare For this few know themfelves: for merchant brok View their eftate with difcontentand pain. Dawies With artslike thefe rich Matho, when he fpeaks Attralts all fees, and little lawyers breaks. Dryden A command or call to be liberal, all of a fudde impoverifhes the rich, breaks the merchant, an fhuts up every private man's exchequer South I fee a great officer broker 13. To crac Savift or open the fkin, {o as tha the blood comes She could have run and waddled all about, eve the day before fhe broke her brow hufband took up the child Weak foul and then m Shakefpeare and blindly to deftrution led She break her heart! fhe'll fooner break your head Oppreft nature fleeps This reft might yet have balm'd thy broken fenfes Which, if conveniency will not allow Stand in hard cure Shakefpeare If any dabbler in poetry-dares venture upon th experiment, he will only dreak his brains. ~ Felto 10. To tame ; to train to obedience enure to docility What boots it to break a colt, an _ fraight run lgofe at random Dryden 14. To make a fwelling or impofthum open 15. To violate a contraé or promife Lovers break not hours Unlefs it be to come before their time Shakefp Pardon this fault, and by my foul I fwear I never more will break an oath with thee. Shak Did not our worthies of the houfe Before they broke the peace, break vows Hudibras 16. To infringe a law Unhappy man ! to break the pious law Of nature, pleadin in his children's caufe Dryd 17. To flop ; to make ceafe Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ‘Give him a little earth for charity Shakefpeare The breaking of that parliamen ' Broke him; as that difhoneft victor At Cheeronea, fatal to liberty Kill'd with report that old man eloquent. Milton Have not fome of his vices weaken'd his body and Jroke his health? have not others diffipate his eftate, and reduced him to want Tillotfon And break our fierce barbarians into men. Addifon By a dim winking lamp, which feebly brok The gloomy vapour, he lay ftretch'd along. Dryd 5. T i Hard to be broken even by lawful kings. Dryden No fports but what belong to war they know To break the ftubborn colt, to bend the bow. Dryd Virtues like thef Make human nature thine, reform the foul 12. To difcard; to difmifs Swift O could we break our way by force curb t to let hi - Spenfer 18. To intercept Spirit of wine, mingled with common water yet fo as if the firfk fall be broken, by means o a fop, or otherwife, it ftayeth above Bacon Think not my fenfe of virtue is fo fmall T'll rather leap down firft, and break your fall Dryden As one condemn'd to leap a precipice ‘Who fees before his eyes the depth below Stops fhort, and looks about for fome kind fhru To break his dreadful fall Dryden the deftin'd blow to break Then from her rofy lips began to {peak 19. To interrupt Dryden Coarfe my attire, and fhort fhall be my fleep Byoke by the melancholy midnight bell. ~ Dryden. The father was fo moved, that he could onl command his voice, broke with fighs and fobbings Addifon fo far as to bid her proceed poor fhade fhivring ftands To open fomething new; to pro- pound fomething by an overture : as i a feal were opened When any. new thing fhall be propounded counfellor fhould fuddenly delive nion, but only hear it, and, a break it, at firft, that it may b ftood at the next meeting 1, who much defir' and muft no any pofitive opi the moft, but t the better underBacon to kno My mind, adventur'd humbly thus to fpeak. D'ryd Toftrain or diflo 24. To break the back cat dens wit the vertebr too heavy bur I'd rather crack my finews, break my back Than you fhould fuch difhonour undergo. ~ Shak 'To difable one' 25. 0 break the back fortune O man Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em For this great journey Shakefpeare. 26. To break a deer. 'To cut it up at table 27. 9o breat faf. 'To eat the firfk tim in the day 'To plough 28. Zo break ground Whe the price of corn falleth me generall give over furplus tillage, and break no more groun Carew than will ferve to fupply their own turn The hufbandman muft firlt break the land, befor it be made capable of good feed Davies 29. Zo break ground. 'To open trenches 30. To break the heart. To deftroy with grief Good my lord, enter here,- ~-Will out break my beart I'd rather break mine own Shake[peares. Should not all relations bear a part Drydena It were enough to break a fingle beart 31. T break a jeff pected 32. To break the neck the neck joints 'To utter a jeft unex didf fingers '"Fo lux, or put ou brea bis meck as hi Shakefpeare 33. To break off. 'To put a fudden ftop to interrupt 34. Zo breat of. 'To preclude by fom obftacle fuddenly interpofed To check the ftarts and fallies of the foul And break off all its commerce with the tongue Addifen. 35. To breat up To diflclve ; to put fudden end to ‘Who cannot reft till he good: fellows find He breaks up houfe, turns out of doors his mind He threatened, tha the tradefme Herbert would bea out his teeth, if he did not retire, and break up th 36. To break up Arbuthnot. 'Fo open ; to lay open Shells being lodged amongft minera! matter when this eomes to be droke up, it exhibits impreflions of the fhells W eodwward 37. To break up 'To feparate or difband After taking the firong city of Belgrade, Soly- map, returning to: Conftantinople, lroke up hi brea armpy, and there lay fill the whole year following His painful filence, till the mortal fpeak. Tickell Sometimes in broken words he figh'd his care Knolles Look'd pale, and trembled, when he view'd the P 28T break upon the auheel "To punit Gay fair by ftretching a criminal upo the wheel 20. To feparate company and breaking his bones with bats Did not Paul and Barnabas difpute with tha 39 L brea avin T giv ven t win combrea t force wer the tha vehemence pany Asterbury n Of whence fhe was, yet fearful how to brea meeting Some folitary cloifter will I choofe Th 23 I had as lief tho Break their talk, miftrefs Quickly; my kinfman fhall fpeak for himfelf Shakefpeare She held my hand The French were not quite broken of it, unti Greaw fome time after they became Chriftians s feet 22. To reform: with of There is, in Ticinum, a cI}ur§h that hat windows only from above; it is in length a Collier off fo noble a relation NI ficies from fide to fide 1t is great folly, as well as injuflice, to brea e Why, no; for the hath broke the lute to me. Shak So fed before he's broke, he'll bea Too great a ftomach patiently to fee The lafhing whip, or chew the curbing fteel. May That hot-mouth'd beaft that bears againft th z1. To diffolve any union A Why then thou can'ft not &reak her to the lutei BreapTH. 2 /. [from bpab, broad, Saxon.] The meafure of any plain fuper hundre BR B 'RiE "in the body F W aCR BR TaoRiw -- |
