Word Meanings - STONEBRASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• Broken-backed
  Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
• Broken-bellied
  Having a ruptured belly.
• Stonesmickle
  The stonechat; -- called also stonesmitch.
• Broken-hearted
  Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
• BROKENBACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten.
• BROKENBELLIED
  Having a ruptured belly. [R.]
• Broken wind
  The heaves.
• BROKENBREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• Broken-winded
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• BROKENHEARTED
  Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe- begone; forlorn.

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