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Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc. toaster. My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. T. Warton.

Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance. [Slang,Eng.]

r pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.

Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants. 'T is said that her top-and-bottoms were gilt. Hood.

To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to treat the whole company.

ns, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.

The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their "summum bonum" upon their trenchers. South. Trencher cap, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square ap…

of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also bêche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. [Written also tripang.]

ensis or B. capriscus) common on the southern coast of the United States, and valued as a food fish in some localities. Its rough skin is used for scouring and polishing in the place of sandpaper. Called also leather jacket, and turbot.

The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled Shak.

Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. æstivum) are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffles. Truffle pig, a pig used for finding truffles.

ealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.

t acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.

Food; pastry; sweetmeats. [Slang] T. Hughes.

A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. [Eng.]

A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.

A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table. [Written also terreen.]

Any one of several species of sciænoid food fishes of the genus Umbrina, especially the Mediterranean species (U. cirrhosa), which is highly esteemed as a market fish; -- called also ombre, and umbrine. Umbra tree (Bot.), a tree (Phytolacca diocia) of the same genus as pokeweed. It is native of South America, but is no…

on; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.

"ness, n. Unclean animals (Script.), those which the Israelites were forbidden to use for food. -- Unclean spirit (Script.), a wicked spirit; a demon. Mark i. 27.