Breach |
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. |
n. |
Breach |
Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise. |
n. |
Breach |
A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. |
n. |
Breach |
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. |
n. |
Breach |
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. |
n. |
Breach |
A bruise; a wound. |
n. |
Breach |
A hernia; a rupture. |
n. |
Breach |
A breaking out upon; an assault. |
n. |
Breach |
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. |
v. t. |
Breach |
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. |
v. i. |
Pound |
To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. |
v. t. |
Pound |
To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt. |
v. t. |
Pound |
To strike heavy blows; to beat. |
v. i. |
Pound |
To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds. |
v. i. |
Pound |
An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold. |
n. |
Pound |
A level stretch in a canal between locks. |
n. |
Pound |
A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward. |
n. |
Pound |
To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound. |
v. t. |
Pound |
of Pound |
pl. |
Pound |
A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces. |
n. |