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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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13 words match “LUNCH”

LUNCH n. 2 definitions
A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.
LUNCHEON v. 3 definitions
To take luncheon. Beaconsfield.
CLUNCH n. 3 definitions
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GLUNCH a. 2 definitions
Frowning; sulky; sullen. Sir W. Scott. -- n.
BAIT n.
A light or hasty luncheon. Bait bug (Zoöl), a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.
BEVER n.
A light repast between meals; a lunch. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
COLLATION n.
A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston. Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another know…
CRIB n.
A miner's luncheon. [Cant] Raymond.
DEJEUNER n.
A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.
INSTITUTION n.
characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits. We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return. Hawthorne.
NUNCHION n.
A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon. [Written also noonshun.] Hudibras.
REFECTION n.
Refreshment after hunger or fatique; a repast; a lunch. [His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. Spenser. Those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods. Curran.
TIFFIN n.
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.