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In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

e of the indorser on the back of the bill. -- Blank line (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats. -- Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange. -- Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind. -- Blank verse. See under Verse. -- Blank wall, a wall in which there…

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

Breadth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.

Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread. 1 Kings xvii. 11. To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back. Shak.

Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

Breadthwise. [Archaic]

lock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used 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…

ery large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

The sweetbread.

ere a clean animal, 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.]

To cover or spread with butter. I know what's what. I know on which side My bread is buttered. Ford.

arge scale (Usually topographical map, which exaggerates the dimensions of houses and the breadth of roads and streams, for the sake of distinctness. Brande & C.

(Cookery) A slice or piece of bread fried in butter or oil, on which anchovies, mushrooms, etc., are served.