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Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11

The stomach. [Humorous] S. Foote.

Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.

Braided [Obs.] Spenser.

Made of bread. [R.]

h form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.

Without bread; destitude of food. Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull. P. Whitehead.

The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.

Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

Without breadth.

Breadthwise. Whewell.

In the direction of the breadth.

The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.

A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

To braid. [Obs.] Spenser.

The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5.

d of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fan…

Bread made of unbolted wheat flour. [U. S.] Bartlett.