Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The outer layers of the grain of cereals such as wheat, removed during the process of milling and used as a source of dietary fiber.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The outer coat of wheat, rye, or other farinaceous grain; the husky portion of ground wheat, separated from the flour by bolting.
- To steep in a bath of bran and water, as cloth before or after dyeing, or skins for tanning.
- n. A name of the common crow
- A dialectal form of bren, burn.
Wiktionary
- n. Outside layer of a grain.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
- n. The European carrion crow.
WordNet 3.0
- n. food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
- n. broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, of Celtic origin.
Examples
“The history of the present raisin bran is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Cereals.”
“The milk, I opine, gives it a sourish taste, and the bran is the least trouble.”
“If raisin bran is the only cereal you’re dealing with a normal supply and demand curve, but when there are fifty different kinds of nearly-identical cereal, your remaining customers really, really like something about your raisin bran in particular. chrismealy”
“I have shared this recipe with the raisin bran many times.”
“I went searching and finally settled on the 100% whole grain bran muffins made by Farmgirl Susan over at Farmgirl Fare.”
“Breakfast: Oatmeal and banana, or raisin bran with skim milk, or a yogurt parfait with fruit.”
“I hear dark rumors that she has her enemies duct taped to comfortable recliners and forced to watch Beachcombers episodes until they eat their own weight in bran loaf!”
“Six days a week we have cereal (lately it has been avena, taking advantage of the cooler weather) but usually raisin bran for me, ChocoZucarritas for Junior.”
“Since I buy the Ukrops house-brand version of raisin bran, I had figured it was just them.”
“This morning at Starbucks, I had the temerity to order a “healthy” 12-grain bran muffin alongside a malted vanilla frappuccino topped with whipped cream (read: milkshake).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bran’.
-
In The Colorhouse
A colorhouse - a manufactory of colors for tints, dyes, pigments, paints, glazes, &c. Terms associated with the science and history of colormaking.
All sorts of things went into color...colorhouse, Turkey red, dyebath, woad, ocher, lead white, mordant, Naples yellow, zaffer, kiln, vat, pot and 151 more...
-
Really great character names
Anyone from books, plays, poems, movies- with a really great name.
fortinbras, puddleglum, quickbeam, bran, moominmama, snufkin, mymble, aziraphale, pickwick, kneller, ozymandias, stelmaria and 1 more...
-
Gas-Inducing Foodstuffs
Foods that produce flatulence. List title a shameless filching of a fortuitous phrase yarb introduced in his definition of scotch egg. I know everyone has a few foods they avoid at certain times ...
scotch egg, cabbage, chili beans, garbanzo beans, chickpeas, hummus, pickled eggs, rutabaga, radish, jerusalem artichoke, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and 42 more...
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.