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Bread
·adj To <<Spread>>.
II. Bread ·noun Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bread
Among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19), though also sometimes of other gr...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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bread
Employment. Out of bread; out of employment. In bad bread; in a disagreeable scrape, or situation.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bread
The usual name given to biscuit.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bread
The preparation of bread as an article of food dates from a very early period. (Genesis 18:6)
The c...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Graham bread
·- Bread made of unbolted wheat flour.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Monkey-bread
·noun The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. ·see <<Adansonia>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bread Street
South out of Cheapside at No. 46 to Queen Victoria Street (P.O. Directory). In Bread Street Ward.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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bread basket
The stomach; a term used by boxers. I took him a punch in his bread basket; i.e. I gave him a blow i...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bread(, native)
n.
a kind of fungus. «Thesclerotium of Polyporus mylitta, C. et M. Until quiterecently the scleroti...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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native bread
n.
See bread.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bread-root
(Psoralea esculenta.) A plant resembling the beet in form, which is found near the Rocky mountains, ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bread-stuff
Bread-corn, meal, or flour; bread.--Webster. Pickering.
This very useful word is American. Mr. Pick...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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graham bread
Bread made of unbolted wheat. It is easier to digest than common wheaten bread, and is in consequenc...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bread-loaf
household bread ; opposed to rolls, or bread in a smaller form. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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clap-bread
thin hard oat-cakes. Lane.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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dazed-bread
dough-baked bread ; dazed meat, ill-roasted from the badness of the fire : a dazed look, said of per...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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haver-bread
oat bread. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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kitchiness-bread
thin soft oat-cakes, made of thin batter. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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ravel-bread
Kent. Called in the North WHITV-
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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brown bread
For RAVEL-BREAD, see Cowel's Interpreter in voce PANIS.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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slappy bread
not baked enough. Norf. and Suff.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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thodden bread
under-baked, heavy. See livered bread. Lane.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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way-bread
plantain ; from the Saxon WJEG !!!BR.EDE, so called, because growing every where in streets and ways...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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bread-barge
The tray in which biscuit is handed round.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bread-fruit
(Artocarpus incisa)
This most useful tree has a wide range of growth, but the seedless variety pro...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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bread-room
The lowest and aftermost part of the orlop deck, where the biscuit is kept, separated by a bulk-head...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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munition bread
Contract or commissariat bread; Brown George.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bread Street Alley
In Bread Street Hill (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bread Street Compter
On the west side of Bread Street in Bread Street Ward. One of the two original Compters, pertaining ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bread Street Hill
South out of Queen Victoria Street at No. 76 to Upper Thames Street (P.O. Directory). In Queenhithe ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bread Street Ward
One of the twenty-six wards of the City, bounded on the north by Cripplegate and Farringdon Wards Wi...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Mildred, Bread Street
On the east side of Bread Street at No. 38 (P.O. Directory). In Bread Street Ward. The parish extend...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Peter, Bread Street
Mentioned in H. MSS. Corn. 9th Rep. 23.
Probably an error in transcription for Broad Street.
See S...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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whity-brown bread
See ravel-bread before.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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bread-room jack
The purser's steward's help.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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size of bread, and cue of bread
Cambridge. The one signifying half, the other one-fourth part of a halfpenny loaf, cue being Q. the ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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All Hallows, Bread Street
On the east side of Bread Street at the corner of Watling Street (O.S. 1875). In Bread Street Ward. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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George Inn, Bread Street
House of Sir William Littlesbery, alias Horne, called "the George" in Bredstreete given by him to th...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Olave Bread Street Hill
Mentioned in 1660 (L. and P. Chas. II. I. 165).
Qy. = Nicholas (St.) Olave.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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bread and butter fashion
One slice upon the other. John and his maid were caught lying bread and butter fashion.--To quarrel ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Cordwainers and Bread Street School
In Well Court, Bow Lane (Rocque, 1746).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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jack in the bread-room
, or jack in the dust.
The purser's steward's assistant in the bread and steward's room.
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The Sailor's Word-Book