Chapter Broad-horned to Brome grass of B by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

6. Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.

7. Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. "Her broken love and life." G. Eliot.

8. Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.

9. Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman.

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.

Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators.
Macaulay.

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.

Broken-backed
(Bro"ken-backed`) a.

1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.

2. (Naut.) Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; — said of a ship. Totten.

Broken-bellied
(Bro"ken-bel`lied) a. Having a ruptured belly. [R.]

Broken-hearted
(Bro"ken-heart`ed) a. Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.

She left her husband almost broken-hearted.
Macaulay.

Syn. — Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe-begone; forlorn.

Brokenly
(Bro"ken*ly), adv. In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.

The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal.
Cudworth.

Brokenness
(Bro"ken*ness), n.

1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.

2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.

Broken wind
(Bro"ken wind`) (Far.) The heaves.

Broken-winded
(Bro"ken-wind`ed), a. (Far.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

Broker
(Bro"ker) n. [OE. brocour, from a word akin to broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, possess, digest, fr. AS. brucan to use, enjoy; cf. Fries. broker, F. brocanteur. See Brook, v. t.]

1. One who transacts business for another; an agent.

2. (Law) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story.