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

Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.

The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16

A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.

In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth. Totten.

Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness.

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. Ex. xxvi. 26.…

A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

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.

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.