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n. [ Cf. F. alkékenge, Sp. alquequenje, ultimately fr. Ar. al-kākanj a kind of resin from Herat. ] (Bot.) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton. [ 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 ]

a. Awe-struck. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Made of bark. [ Poetic ] Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bark, n., a vessel. ] (Naut.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [ Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc. ] See Illust. in Append. [ 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 ]

a. Birchen; as, birken groves. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From 1st Birk. ] To whip with a birch or rod. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blackened p. pr. & vb. n. Blackening. ] [ See Black, a., and cf. Black, v. t. ] 1. To make or render black. [ 1913 Webster ]

While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. “Blackened the whole heavens.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow black or dark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who blackens. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ OE. braken, AS. bracce. See 2d Brake, n. ] A brake or fern. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to become brisk.
Syn. -- brisk, brisk up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ or . [ Trans. of G. Brockengespenst. ] A mountain specter (which see), esp. that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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. [ AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, küken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. küchkein. See Cock the animal. ] 1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. “Stella is no chicken.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a trifling sum of money.
Syn. -- small change. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear. [ slang ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

v. t. To make crooked. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ F. damaschinare. See Damascene, v. ] To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or “water” produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. [ 1913 Webster ]

Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow or darker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Darkened p. pr. & vb. n. Darkening ] [ AS. deorcian. See Dark, a. ] 1. To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. [ 1913 Webster ]

They [ locusts ] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began
To darken all the hill. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To render dim; to deprive of vision. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Rom. xi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darkenhis foresight. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Job. xxxviii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cast a gloom upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
The mirth of the feast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must not think there are
Evils enough to darken all his goodness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. overtaken by night or darkness.
Syn. -- nighted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

n. Twilight; gloaming. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. or interj. [ Perh. a contr. of the dim. devilkins. ] The devil. [ A vulgar euphemism. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make unlike; to disguise. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unlikeness. [ R. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk. ] 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]