Bread
[bred] or [brɛd]
Definition
(noun.) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
(verb.) cover with bread crumbs; 'bread the pork chops before frying them'.
Typist: Lolita--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) To spread.
(n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
(n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
(v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.
Editor: Ronda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Food (especially food made of grain), sustenance, aliment, nutriment, nourishment, subsistence, fare, diet, regimen, victuals, viands, provisions.
Checker: Pamela
Definition
n. food made of flour or meal baked: food: livelihood.—ns. Bread′-bas′ket a basket for holding bread: (slang) the stomach; Bread′-chip′per (Shak.) one who chips bread an under-butler; Bread′-corn corn of which bread is made.—n.pl. Bread′-crumbs bread crumbled down for dressing dishes of fried fish &c.—n. Bread′fruit-tree a tree of the South Sea Islands producing a fruit which when roasted forms a good substitute for bread; Bread′-nut the fruit of a tree a native of Jamaica closely allied to the breadfruit-tree which is used as bread when boiled or roasted; Bread′-room an apartment in a ship's hold where the bread is kept; Bread′-root a herbaceous perennial plant of North America with a carrot-like root which is used as food; Bread′-stud′y any branch of study taken up as a means of gaining a living; Bread′-stuff the various kinds of grain or flour of which bread is made; Bread′-tree a tree of South Africa which has a great deal of starch in its stem and is used as bread by the natives; Bread′-win′ner one who earns a living for a family.—Bread buttered on both sides very fortunate circumstances.—To take the bread out of one's mouth to deprive of the means of living.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a woman to dream of eating bread, denotes that she will be afflicted with children of stubborn will, for whom she will spend many days of useless labor and worry. To dream of breaking bread with others, indicates an assured competence through life. To see a lot of impure bread, want and misery will burden the dreamer. If the bread is good and you have access to it, it is a favorable dream. See Baking and Crust.
To see or eat rye bread in your dreams, foretells you will have a cheerful and well-appointed home.
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Examples
- I had never liked Sir Percival, but the manner in which he left Lady Glyde made me feel ashamed of having eaten his bread and lived in his service. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I took advantage of a moment when Joe had just looked at me, and got my bread and butter down my leg. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I was soon able to call for bread and drink, or whatever else I wanted. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- To earn his bread he sought and found employment on a railway locomotive. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The milk sipped and the bread eaten, Fanny was again summoned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We shall not want bread now; we are bringing you the Baker, the Bakeress, and Baker's boy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The bread and coffee were highly appreciated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Tears are given them here for meat and drink--bread of affliction and waters of affliction--their recompence comes hereafter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- On these trains I employed a boy who sold bread, tobacco, and stick candy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Catching up from the table a piece of bread, and taking his Bargeman's bundle under his arm, Riderhood immediately followed him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Caliphronas, touching neither coffee nor tea, drank water only, and confined his eating to bread, honey, and eggs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You say poor labourers cannot afford to buy bread at a high price, unless they had higher wages. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- To this hour they dare not presume to touch my bread, or drink out of the same cup, neither was I ever able to let one of them take me by the hand. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Grape juice mixed with millet ferments quickly and strongly, and the Romans learned to use this mixture for bread raising, kneading a very small amount of it through the dough. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I could not refuse, and so you have a little feast at night to make up for the bread-and-milk breakfast. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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