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noun

Bread n.

An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking. Note: 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.

Aerated bread. See under Aerated.

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.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. "Give us this day our daily bread."

verb

Bread v. t. To spread. (Obs.)

Bread v. t. (Cookery) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

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"Bread" Quotes from Famous Books

... to College affairs, and detailed to me some amusing information on dances and engagements, to which I listened with what attention I could. But my eyes persisted in resting oftener and oftener on Alexandra, and some bread baked by her and Annie,—a triumph of amateur housekeeping—being passed by the latter in pieces among the cake, I imagined that it tasted like the sacrament, and utterly lost track of what the merry girl was saying. She left me to flood out her ...

— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair

... the kitchen door and stepped in. Pa Norton was sitting in his stocking feet, reading the evening paper. Ma was putting away the day's baking. She paused with a loaf of bread in her hand as the two came in and Pa looked over ...

— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow

... me, my dear Sir, he possessed to the fullest degree. And I believed him, Sir; I nurtured the scorpion in my over-sensitive bosom! I promised him ten per cent. on all the profits of my business, and all the remnants from my own humble repasts—bread, the skins of luscious sausages, the bones from savoury cutlets, the gravy from the tasty carrots and onions. You would have thought that his gratitude would become boundless, that he would almost ...

— Castles in the Air • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... from Oxfordshire, detached from his Roman Catholic kindred there, and setting up in London in the business of scrivenership, with music for his private taste, and a name of some distinction already among the musicians and composers of the time. Then came the happy days of his married life in Bread Street, all through James's reign, his business prospering and music still his delight, but his three surviving children growing up about him, and his heart full of generous resolves for their education, and especially of pride in that one of them on whose ...

— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

... happen. Our men trusting to his friendship, and forced by the necessity that they were suffering, the commander sent Captain Don Antonio de Vera with twenty Spaniards to the said river of Tanchuy to bring back rice to our men; for that is the ordinary bread, and that country abounds plentifully with it. Captain Antonio de Vera and his twenty Spaniards remained one or two months with the chief of Tanchuy, who, although he feasted them, did not conclude by giving them ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XXII, 1625-29 • Various

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