(of electrical or mechanical appliances, idiomatic, US) Out of order; malfunctioning; broken.

(obsolete) a servant in a royal household who had access to the bedchamber

(intransitive, equestrianism) To bite the bit, especially when restless. / (intransitive, idiomatic, of a person) To show impatience or frustration when delayed.

(slang, transitive, chiefly US) To finish off; to beat. / (slang, transitive, chiefly US) To beg from; to borrow money from.

Forbidden things seem more appealing; people want things more if (or, in some way, because) they can't have them.

(idiomatic, chiefly imperative) Used to dismiss the risks of a dangerous action.

(idiomatic, metonymically) More influence and power can be usurped by writing than by fighting.

(Australia, informal, idiomatic) In an extremely isolated place, remote from populated areas; in the middle of nowhere. Typically used to refer to outback areas.

(intransitive, idiomatic) To succeed or begin to succeed. / (transitive, idiomatic) To make (something) succeed.

The theorem that the prime counting function is of the same order of magnitude as x / ln x, i.e., for the prime counting function π, there are positive constants c and C such that: