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. [Colloq.] -- Out to out, from one extreme limit to another, including the whole length, breadth, or thickness; -- applied to measurements. -- Out West, in or towards, the West; specifically, in some Western State or Territory. [U. S.] -- To come out, To cut out, To fall out, etc. See under Come, Cut, Fall, etc. --…

Abread; out of the house; out of doors.

and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.

A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.

Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored. [Written also panado.]

Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.

The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive appa…

A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

The act or process of making bread. Ure.

Eating bread; subsisting on bread.

A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass Hudibras.

The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry. [Obs.] Shak.

An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.

A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.

t over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. Lev. xxiii. 14.

The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover. [Written also patin, patine.]

A kind of bread. See Pone.

Bread. Having Piers Plowman.

The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. [Obs.]