Word Meanings - TOASTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a. & n. from Toast, v. Toasting fork, a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the like, by the fire.

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• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• HANDLING
  The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt. (more info) 1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• 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.
• HANDLESS
  Without a hand. Shak.
• 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.
• CHEESE CLOTH
  A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• HANDLE
  1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton. 2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to
• CHEESEPARING
  A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a.
• TOAST
  1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread. 2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet. 3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
• BREADCORN
  Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.
• TOASTING
  a. & n. from Toast, v. Toasting fork, a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the like, by the fire.
• HANDLEABLE
  Capable of being handled.
• BREADTHWAYS
  Breadthwise. Whewell.
• CHEESE
  1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold. 2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed togehter in the form of a cheese. 3. The flat, circuliar, mucilaginous
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• EDAM; EDAM CHEESE
  A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.
• SWINEBREAD
  The truffle.
• SHEWBREAD
  See SHOWBREAD
• PANHANDLE STATE
  West Virginia; -- a nickname.
• WAYBREAD
  The common dooryard plantain .
• CHANDLERY
  Commodities sold by a chandler.
• PANHANDLE
  The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.
• OVERHANDLE
  To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often. Shak.