n. 1. 1 a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft.
Syn. -- dive brake [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles. Same as air brake.
Syn. -- air brake [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an atomizer to spray by means of compressed air. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Mach.) A railway brake powered by compressed air. Knight.
Syn. -- airbrake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Ache. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a tree (Blighia sapida) widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by Captain Bligh of the HMS Bounty.
Syn. -- akee tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; the flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe.
Syn. -- ackee [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Achene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family comprising the bubble shells.
Syn. -- family Akeridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Acton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a “bush.” [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ AS. āslacian, slacian, to slacken. Cf. Slake. ] To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To overtake. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death. [ 1913 Webster ]

The national spirit again awoke. Freeman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Awake to righteousness, and sin not. 1 Cor. xv. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Awoke Awaked p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p. ] [ AS. āwæcnan, v. i. (imp. awōc), and āwacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake. ] 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

It way awake my bounty further. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From awaken, old p. p. of awake. ] Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before whom awake I stood. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

She still beheld,
Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was awake to the danger. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Awakened p. pr. & vb. n. Awakening. ] [ OE. awakenen, awaknen, AS. āwæcnan, āwæcnian, v. i.; pref. on- + wæcnan to wake. Cf. Awake, v. t. ] To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] is dispatched
Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An awakening. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Baked p. pr. & vb. n. Baking. ] [ AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baka, Dan. bage, Gr. fw`gein to roast. ] 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Baking is the term usually applied to that method of cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning between roasting and baking is not always observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To harden by cold. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process, or result, of baking. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 2. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
Syn. -- adust, parched, scorched, sunbaked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. cooked with dry heat in an oven; -- of bread and pastries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. A pie; baked food. [ Obs. ] Gen. xl. 17. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bæchūs. See Bake, v. t., and House. ] A house for baking; a bakery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a thermosetting plastic used in electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc. [ trademark ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. p. of Bake. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bæcere. See Bake, v. t. ] 1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A portable oven in which baking is done. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A baker's dozen, thirteen. --
Baker foot, a distorted foot. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. --
Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast. --
Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having legs that bend inward at the knees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The trade of a baker. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place for baking bread; a bakehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. “Each beaked promontory.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beaked whale (Zool.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. biker; akin to Icel. bikarr, Sw. bägare, Dan. baeger, G. becher, It. bicchiere; -- all fr. LL. bicarium, prob. fr. Gr. bi^kos wine jar, or perh. L. bacar wine vessel. Cf. Pitcher a jug. ] 1. A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes beds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bespeaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Betook p. p. Betaken p. pr. & vb. n. Betaking. ] [ Pref. be- + take. ] 1. To take or seize. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest, in imitation, to like arms
Betook them. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To commend or intrust to; to commit to. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To keep watch over; to keep awake. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Betake, Betaught. ] To commend; to commit. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ it>or }, n. (Zool.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to various other black serpents, as Natrix atra of Jamaica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Horse Racing) A betting man who “makes a book.” See To make a book, under Book, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. [1913 Webster]

imp. of Break. [ Arhaic ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brake fern; cf. AS. bracce fern, LG. brake willow bush, Da. bregne fern, G. brach fallow; prob. orig. the growth on rough, broken ground, fr. the root of E. break. See Break, v. t., cf. Bracken, and 2d Brake, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the Pteris aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,
To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brake; cf. LG. brake an instrument for breaking flax, G. breche, fr. the root of E. break. See Break, v. t., and cf. Breach. ] 1. An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A baker's kneading though. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A sharp bit or snaffle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pampered jades . . . which need nor break nor bit. Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mil.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Agric.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Engin.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. An ancient instrument of torture. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Air brake. See Air brake, in the Vocabulary. --
Brake beam or
Brake bar, the beam that connects the brake blocks of opposite wheels. --
Brake block. (a) The part of a brake holding the brake shoe. (b) A brake shoe. --
Brake shoe or
Brake rubber, the part of a brake against which the wheel rubs. --
Brake wheel, a wheel on the platform or top of a car by which brakes are operated. --
Continuous brake . See under Continuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Brakemen [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Railroads) A man in charge of a brake or brakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the combination of interacting parts that work to slow a moving vehicle.
Syn. -- brake system. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

I'll be no breaker of the law. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A small water cask. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
Syn. -- ledgeman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. [1913 Webster]

n. Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divide the broad bridecake
Round about the bridestake. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]