v. t. [ L. advocare. See Advocate. ] To summon; to call. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. articiocco, perh. corrupted fr. the same word as carciofo; cf. older spellings archiciocco, archicioffo, carciocco, and Sp. alcachofa, Pg. alcachofra; prob. fr. Ar. al-harshaf, al-kharshūf. ] (Bot.) 1. The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. See Jerusalem artichoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Avocate. ] To call from or back again. [ Obs. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back. It is usually executed with backward-moving circular arm strokes and a flutter kick. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. To foul with smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Bespeak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as made-to-order; -- of clothing.
Syn. -- bespoke, custom, made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. bound by an agreement to become married to someone.
Syn. -- affianced, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Betokened p. pr. & vb. n. Betokening. ] 1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . .
Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To presage; portend; indicate; mark; note. [ 1913 Webster ]

One who negotiates the discount of bills. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. coup de sang. ] Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To poke; to thrust. [ Obs. or Dial. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Registered. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. On the way; destined. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. reserved in advance; held for future use. See reserve{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

n. A support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Broker, and cf. Brook. ] 1. To transact business for another. [ R. ] Brome. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said. Fanshawe. [ 1913 Webster ]

And brokes with all that can in such a suit
Corrupt the tender honor of a maid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Break. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Break, v. t. ] 1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships. [ 1913 Webster ]

The one being who remembered him as he been before his mind was broken. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Subdued; humbled; contrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Ps. li. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. “Her broken love and life.” G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Broken ground. (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow. --
Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. --
Broken meat, fragments of meat or other food. --
Broken number, a fraction. --
Broken weather, unsettled weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a ruptured belly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. Abscess of the mammary gland. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. [ 1913 Webster ]

She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe-begone; forlorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Far.) The heaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Far.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brocour, from a word akin to broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, possess, digest, fr. AS. brūcan to use, enjoy; cf. Fries. broker, F. brocanteur. See Brook, v. t. ] 1. One who transacts business for another; an agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A dealer in secondhand goods. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A pimp or procurer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill broker, one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange. --
Curbstone broker or
Street broker, an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [ U.S. ] --
Exchange broker, one who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money. --
Insurance broker, one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire. --
Pawn broker. See Pawnbroker. --
Real estate broker, one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage. --
Ship broker, one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc. --
Stock broker. See Stockbroker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Mean; servile. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of a broker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting,
And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An accidental or a slyly given stroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Cherokee. (Ethnol.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be checked, as if by choking; to stick. [ 1913 Webster ]

The words choked in his throat. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Choked p. pr. & vb. n. Choking. ] [ OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. āceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough. ] 1. To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. “I was choked at this word.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. [ 1913 Webster ]

To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gun.) (a) The tied end of a cartridge. (b) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance (usually 21/2 to 3 inches) to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A shotgun that is made with such a bore. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chokebored p. pr. & vb. n. Chokeboring. ] To provide with a chokebore. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hindi chaukī-dār. ] A watchman; an officer of customs or police. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered. [ Low ] S. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, chokes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stiff wide cravat; a stock. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Saddlery) A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. “A deep and choky voice.” Aytoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Cloak. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. akin to cake, n. ] Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where &unr_; smokeless fire is required. [ Written also coak. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To convert into coke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cockney. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]