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Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.

The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16

A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.

The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.

See Showbread.

Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabba…

An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. [Eng.] Crabb.

Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.

The truffle.

The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).

eat trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleas…

chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

inous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

es; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth. Totten.

Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. Ammunition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]

Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness.

Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus.