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Bread \Bread\ (br[e^]d), n. [AS. bre['a]d; akin to OFries.
br[=a]d, OS. br[=o]d, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel.
brau[eth], Sw. & Dan. br["o]d. The root is probably that of
E. brew. [root]93. See {Brew}.]
1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening,
kneading, and baking.
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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.
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{A["e]rated bread}. See under {A["e]rated}.
{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}.
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2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
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Give us this day our daily bread. --Matt. vi. 11
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Brown \Brown\ (broun), a. [Compar. {Browner}; superl.
{Brownest}.] [OE. brun, broun, AS. br?n; akin to D. bruin,
OHG. br?n, Icel. br?nn, Sw. brun, Dan. bruun, G. braun, Lith.
brunas, Skr. babhru. [root]93, 253. Cf. {Bruin}, {Beaver},
{Burnish}, {Brunette}.]
Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or
yellow.
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Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. --Longfellow.
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{Brown Bess}, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket,
with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.
{Brown bread}
(a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat
flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham
bread. "He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt
brown bread and garlic." --Shak.
(b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or
of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [U.S.]
{Brown coal}, wood coal. See {Lignite}.
{Brown hematite} or {Brown iron ore} (Min.), the hydrous iron
oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See {Limonite}.
{Brown holland}. See under {Holland}.
{Brown paper}, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping
paper, made of unbleached materials.
{Brown spar} (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in
part identical with ankerite.
{Brown stone}. See {Brownstone}.
{Brown stout}, a strong kind of porter or malt liquor.
{Brown study}, a state of mental abstraction or serious
reverie. --W. Irving.
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