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English Dictionary: bread by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bread
n
  1. food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
    Synonym(s): bread, breadstuff, staff of life
  2. informal terms for money
    Synonym(s): boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
v
  1. cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before frying them"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bread \Bread\, v. t. [AS. br[91]dan to make broad, to spread.
      See {Broad}, a.]
      To spread. [Obs.] --Ray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bread \Bread\, n. [AS. bre[a0]d; akin to OFries. br[be]d, OS.
      br[?]d, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel. brau[?], Sw. & Dan.
      br[94]d. The root is probably that of E. brew. [?] See
      {Brew}.]
      1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening,
            kneading, and baking.
  
      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.
  
      {A[89]rated bread}. See under {A[89]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}.
  
      2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  
                     Give us this day our daily bread.      --Matt. vi. 11

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bread \Bread\, v. t. (Cookery)
      To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as,
      breaded cutlets.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Bread
      among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg.
      6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Gen. 14:18; Judg.
      7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any
      other preparation (Ruth 2:14).
     
         Bread was prepared by kneading in wooden bowls or "kneading
      troughs" (Gen. 18:6; Ex. 12:34; Jer. 7:18). The dough was mixed
      with leaven and made into thin cakes, round or oval, and then
      baked. The bread eaten at the Passover was always unleavened
      (Ex. 12:15-20; Deut. 16:3). In the towns there were public
      ovens, which were much made use of for baking bread; there were
      also bakers by trade (Hos. 7:4; Jer. 37:21). Their ovens were
      not unlike those of modern times. But sometimes the bread was
      baked by being placed on the ground that had been heated by a
      fire, and by covering it with the embers (1 Kings 19:6). This
      was probably the mode in which Sarah prepared bread on the
      occasion referred to in Gen. 18:6.
     
         In Lev. 2 there is an account of the different kinds of bread
      and cakes used by the Jews. (See {BAKE}.)
     
         The shew-bread (q.v.) consisted of twelve loaves of unleavened
      bread prepared and presented hot on the golden table every
      Sabbath. They were square or oblong, and represented the twelve
      tribes of Israel. The old loaves were removed every Sabbath, and
      were to be eaten only by the priests in the court of the
      sanctuary (Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:8; 1 Sam. 21:1-6; Matt. 12:4).
     
         The word bread is used figuratively in such expressions as
      "bread of sorrows" (Ps. 127:2), "bread of tears" (80:5), i.e.,
      sorrow and tears are like one's daily bread, they form so great
      a part in life. The bread of "wickedness" (Prov. 4:17) and "of
      deceit" (20:17) denote in like manner that wickedness and deceit
      are a part of the daily life.
     
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