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The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. [Eng.] [Written also arish, ersh, etc.] The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag.

h a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [Prov. Eng.]

Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]

Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.

In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below. Wheaton.

A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.]

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

Buckwheat. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

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 connecti…

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

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;…

, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.

Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.

Wheat, or bread made from wheat. [Obs.] Drayton. Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste. Chapman.

A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat flelds, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also ch…