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Brown bread
(gcide) | 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 bread
(gcide) | 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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brown bread
(wn) | brown bread
n 1: bread made with whole wheat flour [syn: dark bread,
whole wheat bread, whole meal bread, brown bread]
2: dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with
molasses and soda and milk or water [syn: brown bread,
Boston brown bread] |
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