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The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. A sorry breakfast for my lord protector. Shak.

who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. The autocrat of the breakfast table. Holmes.

o seize or devour greedily; -- with up. [Obs.] Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up. L'estrange.

he place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term "English breakfast tea." S. W. Williams.

A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.

An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. They breakfast in dishabille. Smollett.

end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast. Shak.

A long French breakfast roll. Simonds.

A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner.

The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.

A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

o rescue seamen from destruction. Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. Shak.

An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast. Swift.

A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.

A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.