Word Meanings - SHATTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar.
Related words: (words related to SHATTERY)
- BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - COMPACT
1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely - COMPACTIBLE
That may be compacted. - LOOSE
laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, - COMPACTEDLY
In a compact manner. - BRITTLE STAR
Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea. - BREAKAWAY
A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd. - LOOSEN
Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening - SHATTERY
Easily breaking into pieces; not compact; loose of texture; brittle; as, shattery spar. - BREAKDOWN
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, - LOOSESTRIFE
The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant - BREAK-CIRCUIT
A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. - BREAK
brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel.braka to creak, Sw. braka, bräkka to crack, Dan. brække to break, Goth. brikan to break, 1. To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break - COMPACTNESS
The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density. - COMPACTION
The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. Bacon. - BREAKER
A small water cask. Totten. 4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be - COMPACTER
One who makes a compact. - TEXTURE
A tissue. See Tissue. (more info) 1. The act or art of weaving. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. Milton. Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. Thomson. 3. The disposition - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - OATHBREAKING
The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak - PEACEBREAKER
One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n. - UPBREAK
To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface. - PERBREAK
See PARBREAK - OUTBREAK
A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak. - UNLOOSEN
To loosen; to unloose. - PRETEXTURE
A pretext. - UNEASILY
In an uneasy manner.