Word Meanings - DISSHIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To shiver or break in pieces.
Related words: (words related to DISSHIVER)
- BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - SHIVER-SPAR
A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar. - BREAKAWAY
A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd. - BREAKDOWN
1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, - BREAK-CIRCUIT
A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit. - BREAK
brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel.braka to creak, Sw. braka, bräkka to crack, Dan. brække to break, Goth. brikan to break, 1. To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break - BREAKER
A small water cask. Totten. 4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be - SHIVERINGLY
In a shivering manner. - BREAKWATER
Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence. - BREAK-UP
Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government. - BREAKAGE
1. The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken. 2. An allowance or compensation for things broken accidentally, as in transportation or use. - BREAKNECK
1. A fall that breaks the neck. 2. A steep place endangering the neck. - BREAKFAST
1. The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. A sorry breakfast for my lord protector. Shak. 2. A meal after fasting, or food in general. The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. Dryden. - SHIVERY
1. Tremulous; shivering. Mallet. 2. Easily broken; brittle; shattery. - BREAKBONE FEVER
See DENGUE - SHIVER
A variety of blue slate. (more info) splinter, slate, OHG. scivere a splinter, Dan. & Sw. skifer a slate. 1. One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - DISSHIVER
To shiver or break in pieces. - OATHBREAKING
The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak - PEACEBREAKER
One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n. - UPBREAK
To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface. - PERBREAK
See PARBREAK - OUTBREAK
A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak. - APIECES
In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak. - HOUSEBREAKING
The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break. - INBREAK; INBREAKING
A breaking in; inroad; invasion. - HAMMER BREAK
An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an electromagnet, or of a rapidly moving piece mechanically driven.