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- English Word Breakbone fever Definition See Dengue.
- English Word Breakdown Definition The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
- English Word Breakdown Definition 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.
- English Word Breakdown Definition Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
- English Word Breaker Definition One who, or that which, breaks.
- English Word Breaker Definition Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
- English Word Breaker Definition A small water cask.
- English Word Breaker Definition A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
- English Word Breakfast Definition The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
- English Word Breakfast Definition A meal after fasting, or food in general.
- English Word Breakfast Definition To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
- English Word Breakfast Definition To furnish with breakfast.
- English Word breakfasted Definition of Breakfast
- English Word Breakfasting Definition of Breakfast
- English Word Breaking Definition of Break
- English Word Breakman Definition See Brakeman.
- English Word Breakneck Definition A fall that breaks the neck.
- English Word Breakneck Definition A steep place endangering the neck.
- English Word Breakneck Definition Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.
- English Word Breakwater Definition Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.