Word Meanings - BREADSTUFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• FLOURY
  Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• GRAINY
  Resembling grains; granular.
• BREADROOT
  The root of a leguminous plant , found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. Note: It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• GRAINER
  1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,
• GRAINING
  The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
• FLOURISHER
  One who flourishes.
• GRAINS
  1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
• FLOURED
  Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.
• GRAINFIELD
  A field where grain is grown.
• FLOURISH
  1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like. Howell. 2. Decoration; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw. 3. Something made or
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• SWINEBREAD
  The truffle.
• SHEWBREAD
  See SHOWBREAD
• WAYBREAD
  The common dooryard plantain .
• ROUGH-GRAINED
  Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.