A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
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To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray.
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To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
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To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the…
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A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.
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To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…
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Serving to gratify; agreeable.
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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
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A mesh.
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To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
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To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
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To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
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To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to su…
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The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.
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A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.
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To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
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Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
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A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
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A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
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A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
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of File
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A paling; a hurdle.
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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.
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of Pare
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A piece or fragment of a broken pot.
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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
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of Scrape
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of Shave
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To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
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To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
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The shoulder.
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A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.
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A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall.
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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 co…
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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…
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A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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A fragmentary rock.
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A fragmentary rock.
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Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.
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Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.
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A plant; chard.
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A plant; chard.
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A plant; chard.
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A fragment; -- now used only in composition, as in potsherd. See Shard.
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