BREAK

See THROUGH ROUTE.

business shall be conducted by means of threats of injury or loss, by interference with their property or traffic, or with their lawful employment of other persons, or designed to abridge any of those rights, - are pro tanto illegal combinations; and all acts done in furtherance of such intentions by such means and accompanied by damage are actionable.1 An act of Wisconsin, approved April 2, 1887 (Laws, ch. 287), provides that: Any two or more persons who shall combine, associate, agree, mutually undertake, or concert together for the purpose of willfully or maliciously injuring another in his reputation, trade, business or profession, by any means whatever, or for the purpose of maliciously compelling another to do or perform any act against his will, or preventing or hindering another from doing or performing any lawful act, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. See further COMBINATION, 2; CONSPIRACY; INJURY, Irreparable; STRIKE, 2. Compare BLACK-LISTING. See also ASSEMBLY, Unlawful; RIOT. Breach of contract or covenant. A failure to observe the conditions of a contract. See CONTRACT; COVENANT. Breach of pound. The forcible removal of a thing lawfully impounded. Also called pound-breach. See Pound, 2. Breach of prison. Escape from lawful confinement in a prison. Also called prisonbreach. See ESCAPE, 1 (2). Breach of privilege. Violation of the privilege of a legislature. See PRIVILEGE, 4. Breach of promise. Failure to solemnize a contract of marriage, q. v. Breach of the peace. Disturbance of the public order. See PEACE, 1. Breach of trust. Violation of the duty imposed by an instrument creating a trust; also, willful misappropriation of a thing 1. To sever by fracture; to part or divide with force or violence; also, to lay open or uncover. Break bulk. For a bailee to open a box or package intrusted to his custody and fraudulently appropriate the contents. See LARCENY, By bailee. Break doors. To remove the fastenings of a house with force, so that a person, as, an officer executing process, may enter. See

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock. Shak. To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods. To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate. Katharine, break thy mind to me. Shak. To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts . . . To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray. Milton To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey. Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore. Shak. To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set. To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares. To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. The victim broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. Prescott. To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill. To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax. To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind. An old man, broken with the storms of state. Shak. To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow. I'll rather leap down first, and break your fall. Dryden. To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend. To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle. "To break a colt." Spenser. Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute Shak. To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin. With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks. Dryden. To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. I see a great officer broken. Swift.

To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder. To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. Else the bottle break, and the wine runneth out. Math. ix. 17. To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn. The day begins to break, and night is fied. Shak. And from the turf a fountain broke, and gurgled at our feet. Wordswoorth. To burst forth violently, as a storm. The clouds are still above; and, while I speak, A second deluge o'er our head may break. Shak. To open up. to be scattered; t be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking. At length the darkness begins to break. Macawlay. To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength. See how the dean begins to break; Poor gentleman . Swift. To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking. To fall in business; to become bankrupt. He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break, and come to poverty. Bacn. To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop. To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty. To fall out; to terminate friendship. To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited. Collier.

An opening made by fracture or disruption. An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship. Specifically: An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation. An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc. All modern trash is Set forth with numerous breaks and dashes. Swift. The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn. A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10. See Commutator.

To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. | To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. | To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain. | To divide (something, often money) into smaller units. | To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of. | To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of. | To turn an animal into a beast of burden. | To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief. | To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate. | To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate. | To end the run of (a play). | To ruin financially. | To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt. | Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly. | To violate; to fail to adhere to. | To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed. | To end. | To begin or end. | To arrive. | To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage. | To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether. | To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether. | To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression. | To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar. | To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar. | To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible. | To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar. | To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like. | To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce. | To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water. | To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view. | To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break. | To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath. | To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc. | To become audible suddenly. | To change a steady state abruptly. | To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for. | To suddenly become. | To become deeper at puberty. | To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack. | To de-emulsify. | To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record. | To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver. | To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement. | To remove one of the two men on (a point). | To demote; to reduce the military rank of. | To end (a connection); to disconnect. | To counter-attack. | To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate. | To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength. | To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of. | To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss. | To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait. | To fall out; to terminate friendship. | To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion. | To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated. | To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.

A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.

An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces. | A physical space that opens up in something or between two things. | An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with. | A rest or pause, usually from work. | A rest or pause, usually from work. | A time for students to talk or play between lessons. | A rest or pause, usually from work. | A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday. | A short holiday. | A temporary split with a romantic partner. | An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game. | A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention. | A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange. | The beginning (of the morning). | An act of escaping. | The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text. | A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution. | Ellipsis of breakpoint. | A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather. | A game won by the receiving player(s). | The first shot in a game of billiards. | The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table. | The counter-attack. | The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture. | A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water). | The start of a horse race. | The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers. | A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind. | Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”) | A sharp bit or snaffle. | A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue. | The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register. | The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio. | An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US). | An error.