An excellent article for sea-diet; boiled with a proportion of molasses, it makes a most nutritious breakfast. As it stows well, and would even yield nearly the same weight in bread, it should be made an article of allowance.
·noun A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
One of the earliest cultivated grains. It bore the Hebrew name hittah, and was extensively cultivate...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
the well-known valuable cereal, cultivated from the earliest times, is first mentioned in ((Genesis ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·adj Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran. ...
·add. ·- A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the...
·add. ·- A small European sawfly (Cephus pygmaeus) whose larva does great injury to wheat by boring ...
North out of Leadenhall Street, west of Creechurch Lane (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755). In Aldgate Wa...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.