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Word Meanings - BREAKDOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. 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,

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1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. 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. Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time. Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with. New Eng. Tales.

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    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • DANCER
    One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • UNITERABLE
    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • BREAKABLE
    Capable of being broken.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • PEOPLE
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  • RAPID
    1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
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    Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
  • RESULTIVE
    Resultant. Fuller.
  • UNITIVE
    Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • CARRIAGEABLE
    Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
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    In a gymnastic manner.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • SCALLION
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    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
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    One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
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    A renewed or repeated engagement.
  • PARABOLICALLY
    1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.

 

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