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Broken
- verb -
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises";
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises;
- break a piece from a whole; "break a branch from a tree"
- break down, literally or metaphorically;
- change directions suddenly
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children"
- come forth or begin from a state of latency; "The first winter storm broke over New York"
- come into being; "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air"
- come to an end;
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; "The surf broke"
- destroyed financially;
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;
- do a break dance; "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner"
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in
Buccan
- - A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.
Buchan
- unknown - John Buchan was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada from 1935
Buffin
- - A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.
Bullon
- - A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis).
Bumkin
- - A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen.
Bunion
- noun - a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe
Bunsen
- noun - a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air
- German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)
Bunyan
- noun - a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada; "Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water"
- English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)
Burden
- noun - an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- weight down with a load
- weight to be borne or conveyed