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 ]

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. 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 ]

n. A stroke or blow in return. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Swimming) A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. kro`kos saffron. ] A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Mech.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dead-stroke hammer (Mach.), a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Penmanship) A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A blow with the hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A physiological disturbance caused by exposure to excessive heat, resulting in rapid pulse, hot dry skin, and fever, leading to loss of consciousness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place, such as a litter box; as, housebroken pets; -- of pet animals.
Syn. -- house-trained, housetrained. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Neuro- + keratin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Paroquet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A breed of dog, the smaller and straight-legged variety of Welsh corgi having pointed ears and a short tail.
Syn. -- Pembroke Welsh corgi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ From Pembroke, a town and shire in Wales. ] A style of four-legged drop-leaf table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period. [ 1913 Webster ]

The characteristic which gives a table the name of Pembroke consists in the drop leaves, which are held up, when the table is open, by brackets which turn under the top. F. C. Morse. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To poke; to thrust. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Reek. ] 1. Mist; smoke; damp [ Prov. Eng. ] [ Written also roak, rook, and rouk. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vein of ore. [ Pov.Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Nocake. ] Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Roquelaure. ] A short cloak. [ Written also rockelay, rocklay, etc. ] [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Eng. Billiards) The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave the cue ball in position for an easy winning hazard in either top corner pocket. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A broker who deals in stocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. strok, strook, strak, fr. striken. See Strike, v. t. ] 1. The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon. [ 1913 Webster ]

His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree. Deut. xix. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes. Prov. xviii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the day that Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. Isa. xxx. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The striking of the clock to tell the hour. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well, but what's o'clock?
- Upon the stroke of ten. -- Well, let is strike. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, lasting as those colors may they shine,
Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death. [ 1913 Webster ]

At this one stroke the man looked dead in law. Harte. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A throb or beat, as of the heart. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.; also: (Rowing) (a) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke. (b) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar. (c) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Mach.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The respective strokes are distinguished as up and down strokes, outward and inward strokes, forward and back strokes, the forward stroke in stationary steam engines being toward the crosshead, but in locomotives toward the front of the vehicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. Power; influence. [ Obs. ] “Where money beareth [ hath ] all the stroke.” Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

He has a great stroke with the reader. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. Appetite. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

To keep stroke, to make strokes in unison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The oars where silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Strike. Struck. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Strokeed p. pr. & vb. n. Strokeing. ] [ OE. stroken, straken, AS. strācian, fr. strīcan to go over, pass. See Strike, v. t., and cf. Straggle. ] 1. To strike. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye mote with the plat sword again
Stroken him in the wound, and it will close. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe. [ 1913 Webster ]

He dried the falling drops, and, yet more kind,
He stroked her cheeks. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make smooth by rubbing. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Strokesman (Rowing) The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]