资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bread \Bread\, n. [AS. bre['a]d; akin to OFries. br[=a]d, OS.
   br?d, D. brood, G. brod, brot, Icel. brau?, Sw. & Dan.
   br["o]d. The root is probably that of E. brew. ? See {Brew}.]
   1. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening,
      kneading, and baking.

   Note:

   {Raised bread} is made with yeast, salt, and sometimes a
      little butter or lard, and is mixed with warm milk or
      water to form the dough, which, after kneading, is given
      time to rise before baking.

   {Cream of tartar bread} is raised by the action of an
      alkaline carbonate or bicarbonate (as saleratus or
      ammonium bicarbonate) and cream of tartar (acid tartrate
      of potassium) or some acid.

   {Unleavened bread} is usually mixed with water and salt only.

   {A["e]rated bread}. See under {A["e]rated}.

   {Bread and butter} (fig.), means of living.

   {Brown bread}, {Indian bread}, {Graham bread}, {Rye and
   Indian bread}. See {Brown bread}, under {Brown}.

   {Bread tree}. See {Breadfruit}.

   2. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

            Give us this day our daily bread.     --Matt. vi. 11

Brown \Brown\, a. [Compar. {Browner}; superl. {Brownest}.] [OE.
   brun, broun, AS. br?n; akin to D. bruin, OHG. br?n, Icel.
   br?nn, Sw. brun, Dan. bruun, G. braun, Lith. brunas, Skr.
   babhru. [root]93, 253. Cf. {Bruin}, {Beaver}, {Burnish},
   {Brunette}.]
   Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or
   yellow.

         Cheeks brown as the oak leaves.          --Longfellow.

   {Brown Bess}, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket,
      with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army.

   {Brown bread}
   (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat
       flour, sometimes called in the United States Graham
       bread. ``He would mouth with a beggar though she smelt
       brown bread and garlic.'' --Shak.
   (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or
       of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [U.S.]
       

   {Brown coal}, wood coal. See {Lignite}.

   {Brown hematite} or {Brown iron ore} (Min.), the hydrous iron
      oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See {Limonite}.
      

   {Brown holland}. See under {Holland}.

   {Brown paper}, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping
      paper, made of unbleached materials.

   {Brown spar} (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in
      part identical with ankerite.

   {Brown stone}. See {Brownstone}.

   {Brown stout}, a strong kind of porter or malt liquor.

   {Brown study}, a state of mental abstraction or serious
      reverie. --W. Irving.

资料来源 : WordNet®

brown bread
     n 1: bread made with whole wheat flour [syn: {dark bread}, {whole
          wheat bread}, {whole meal bread}]
     2: dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with
        molasses and soda and milk or water [syn: {Boston brown
        bread}]