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smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"

growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp

smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"

growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp

A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

To rack; to torment.

Wreck; ruin; destruction.

Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.

Coarse seaweed of any kind.

A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

To rack; to torment.

Wreck; ruin; destruction.

Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.

Coarse seaweed of any kind.

A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

A popular name for seaweeds generally, but more especially when thrown ashore by the waves; the name is sometimes restricted to the species of Fucus, which from the bulk of the wrack collected for manure, and sometimes for making kelp; those found most plentifully on the British shores are the F. vesiculosus and the F. nodosus: destruction of a ship by winds or rocks or by the force of the waves; wreck. Shak.: ruin; destruction. Shak. (This is the ordinary spelling in the old editions of Shakespeare, both of the noun and of the verb.).

To destroy in the water; to wreck. Milton: to torture; to rack. Cowley.

Shipwreck; seaweed cast ashore; ruin; destruction; a thin, flying cloud: also spelled rack.

Floating material, as seaweed, cast ashore.

Wreck; ruin; wreckage.

A rack, as of clouds, See RACK, n.

n. [French] A marine plant out of which kelp is made, and which is also of great utility as a manure;-sea-weed in general, thrown ashore by the waves.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] A thin, flying cloud; a rack.