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with representations of natural objects. Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to day. Longfellow.

Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.

To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy. Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude Matt. xv. 33. Things that are sweet and fat are more filling. Bacon.

An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard. A piece of steel three fingers thick. Bp. Wilkins.

d birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. Chaucer.

lenty; high living. In the land of Egypt . . . we sat by the fleshpots, and . . . did eat bread to the full. Ex. xvi. 3.

xix. 27. Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds. Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).

Made of bran; furfuraceous. [R.] "Furfurous bread." Sydney Smith.

Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.

or capacity; a standard. This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by. Moxon. There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds. I. Taylor.

The brown crust formed upon a gratinated dish; also, dish itself, as crusts bread, game, or poultry.

-- Ground bailiff (Mining), a superintendent of mines. Simmonds. -- Ground bait, bits of bread, boiled barley or worms, etc., thrown into the water to collect the fish, Wallon. -- Ground bass or base (Mus.), fundamental base; a fundamental base continually repeated to a varied melody. -- Ground beetle (Zoöl.), one o…

The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.

Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

rds in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only. -- Half-breadth plan (Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines. -- Half cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant. -- Half cap, a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] Shak. -- A half co…

A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.

A hand's breadth; four inches. [Obs.] Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. Bacon.

A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.

The oat; oats. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Haver bread, oaten bread. -- Haver cake, oaten cake. Piers Plowman. -- Haver grass, the wild oat. -- Haver meal, oatmeal.