*bread*

v. t. [ AS. brædan to make broad, to spread. See Broad, a. ] To spread. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. breád; akin to OFries. brād, OS. brōd, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel. brauð, Sw. & Dan. bröd. The root is probably that of E. brew. √93. See Brew. ] 1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Raised bread is made with yeast, salt, and sometimes a little butter or lard, and is mixed with warm milk or water to form the dough, which, after kneading, is given time to rise before baking. --
Cream of tartar bread is raised by the action of an alkaline carbonate or bicarbonate (as saleratus or ammonium bicarbonate) and cream of tartar (acid tartrate of potassium) or some acid. --
Unleavened bread is usually mixed with water and salt only. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aërated bread. See under Aërated.
Bread and butter (fig.), means of living. --
Brown bread,
Indian bread,
Graham bread,
Rye and Indian bread. See Brown bread, under Brown. --
Bread tree. See Breadfruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11 [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Cookery) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The stomach. [ Humorous ] S. Foote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a container used to store breads or cake, to keep them fresh.
Syn. -- breadbox. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a container used to store breads or cake, to keep them fresh.
Syn. -- bread-bin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Braided [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of bread. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) 1. The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without bread; destitute of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull. P. Whitehead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a queue of people waiting for free food.
Syn. -- bread line. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brede, breede, whence later bredette, AS. br&aemacr_;du, fr. brād broad. See Broad, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great multiplicity of details, producing an impression of largeness and simple grandeur; -- called also breadth of effect.

Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without breadth. [ 1913 Webster ]

ads. Breadthwise. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

ads. In the direction of the breadth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a bread made from corn meal. [ PJC ]

2. in the northeastern U. S., a moist and heavy sourdough rye bread. RHUD [ PJC ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + bread = 1st braid. ] To braid. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the length or breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.
Syn. -- finger, finger's breadth, digit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. “Gingerbread that was full fine.” Chaucer.

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Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. --
Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Sylvester Graham, a lecturer on dietetics. ] Bread made of unbolted wheat flour. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>. The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. [ Also spelled hairsbreadth. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.
Syn. -- handsbreadth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.
Syn. -- handbreath. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Showbread. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Jewish Antiq.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [ Written also shewbread. ] Mark ii. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a bread made with buttermilk and leavened with baking soda. [ PJC ]

n. (Law) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. [ Eng. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck sweetbread or throat sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) The pancreas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The truffle. [ 1913 Webster ]