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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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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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Way
·noun Progress; as, a ship has way.
II. Way ·adv <<Away>>.
III. Way ·noun Sphere or scope of obser...
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way
Is sometimes the same as the ship's rake or run, forward or backward, but is most commonly understoo...
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Graham bread
·- Bread made of unbolted wheat flour.
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Monkey-bread
·noun The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. ·see <<Adansonia>>.
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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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bouted-bread
bread made of wheat and rye. Northumb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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bread-loaf
household bread ; opposed to rolls, or bread in a smaller form. N.
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clap-bread
thin hard oat-cakes. Lane.
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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...
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haver-bread
oat bread. N.
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kitchiness-bread
thin soft oat-cakes, made of thin batter. N.
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ravel-bread
Kent. Called in the North WHITV-
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brown bread
For RAVEL-BREAD, see Cowel's Interpreter in voce PANIS.
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slappy bread
not baked enough. Norf. and Suff.
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thodden bread
under-baked, heavy. See livered bread. Lane.
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bread-barge
The tray in which biscuit is handed round.
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bread-fruit
(Artocarpus incisa)
This most useful tree has a wide range of growth, but the seedless variety pro...
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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...
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munition bread
Contract or commissariat bread; Brown George.
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Four-way
·adj Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
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Three-way
·adj Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
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Two-way
·add. ·adj Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way c...
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Water way
·- ·same·as Water course.
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Way shaft
·- A rock shaft.
II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels.
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Way-going
·adj Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.
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Way-goose
·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2.
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Way-wise
·adj Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.
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way-bill
A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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carpet-way
a green way, a way on the turf. S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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gainest-way
the nearest way. N.
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leech-way
the path in which the dead are carried to be buried. Exm.
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spur-way
a bridle-way through any ground, a passage for a horse by right of custom. S.
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way-bit
(or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece ; a mile and a wee -bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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whapple-way
a bridle-way, or road where only a horse can pass. S.
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companion-way
The staircase, porch, or berthing of the ladder-way to the cabin.
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covered way
In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troop...
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covert-way
See covered way.
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drift-way
Synonymous with lee-way.
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fair-way
The navigable channel of a harbour for ships passing up or down; so that if any vessels are anchored...
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freshen way
When the ship feels the increasing influence of a breeze. Also, when a man quickens his pace.
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fresh way
Increased speed through the water; a ship is said to "gather fresh way" when she has tacked, or hove...
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give way
The order to a boat's crew to renew rowing, or to increase their exertions if they were already rowi...
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head-way
A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...
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lee-way
What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...
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milky way
See via lactea.
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right way
When the ship's head casts in the desired direction. Also, when she swings clear at single anchor.
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sea-way
The progress of a ship through the waves. Also, said when a vessel is in an open place where the sea...
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steerage-way
When a vessel has sufficient motion in the water to admit of the helm being effective.
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stern-way
The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way.
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stoach-way
The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term pri...
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tide-way
The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly.
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under way
A ship beginning to move under her canvas after her anchor is started. Some have written this under ...
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'way up!
See way aloft!
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'way aloft!
or 'way up!
The command when the crew are required aloft to loose, reef, furl sails, or man yards,...
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way-gate
The tail-race of a mill.
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wrong way
When the ship casts in the opposite direction to that desired. Also, a ship swinging in a tide's way...
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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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Great White Way
·add. ·- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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right-of-way
n.
a lane. In England the wordindicates a legal right to use a particular passage. InAustralia it i...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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caper corner-way
Diagonally.
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fetch head-way
or stern-way.
Said of a vessel gathering motion ahead or astern.
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fetch way, to
Said of a gun, or anything which escapes from its place by the vessel's motion at sea.
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gather way, to
To begin to feel the impulse of the wind on the sails, so as to obey the helm.
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give way together
So that the oars may all dip and rise together, whereby the force is concentrated.
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keeping her way
The force of steady motion through the water, continued after the power which gave it has varied or ...
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lose way, to
When a ship slackens her progress in the water.
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lost her way
When the buoy is streamed, and all is ready for dropping the anchor.
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make head-way
A ship makes head-way when she advances through the water.
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pilot's fair-way
, or pilot's water.
A channel wherein, according to usage, a pilot must be employed.
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sea-way measurer
A kind of self-registering log invented by Smeaton, the architect of the Eddystone lighthouse.
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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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Out-of-the-way
·adj ·see under Out, ·adv
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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angle of lee-way
The difference between the apparent compass-course and the true one arising from lateral pressure an...
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cast the wrong way
See wrong way.
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make lee-way, to
To drift to leeward of the course.
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make stern-way, to
To retreat, or move stern foremost.
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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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deaden a ship's way, to
To retard a vessel's progress by bracing in the yards, so as to reduce the effect of the sails, or b...
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give way with a will
Pull heartily together.
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Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate
See Foster Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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moor a cable each way, to
Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...
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which way does the wind lie?
What is the matter?
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