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Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.

as the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, and the Victoria bridge at Montreal. -- Wheatstone's bridge (Elec.), a device for the measurement of resistances, so called because the balance between the resistances to be measured is indicated by the absence of a current in a certain wire forming a bridge or connectio…

To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops. [Prov. Eng.]

nal inhabitants. British gum, a brownish substance, very soluble in cold water, formed by heating dry starch at a temperature of about 600° Fahr. It corresponds, in its properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods. -- British lion, the national emblem of Great Britain.…

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.

n 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;…

The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

that wants firmness or solidity; that which is more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble. Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. Shak.

To cheat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.

To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink. Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment. Pepys.

To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. [Colloq.]

A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." Shak.

The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated. Burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol. -- Burning…

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean…

The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.

The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. Ps. xliv. 14

flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.