bread

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
2. n. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life: "If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second” ( Edward Bellamy).
3. n. Something that nourishes; sustenance: "My bread shall be the anguish of my mind” ( Edmund Spenser).
4. n. Means of support; livelihood: earn one's bread.
5. n. Slang Money.
6. v. To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking: breaded the fish fillets.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A kind of food made of the flour or meal of some species of grain, by kneading it (with the addition of a little salt, and sometimes sugar) into a dough, yeast being commonly added to cause fermentation or “lightness,” and then baking it. The yeast causes alcoholic fermentation and the production of alcohol and carbonic acid; the latter, an expanding gas, pushes the particles of dough asunder, causing the bread to rise, and, with the alcohol, is soon expelled by the heat of the oven. See yeast. In salt-rising bread the fermentation is said to be carried on by bacteria. Bread is sometimes made partly or wholly from the products of other than cereal plants, as beans, lentils, chestnuts, some kinds of bark, etc.
2. n. Figuratively, food or sustenance in general.
3. n. (b In New England, wheaten or rye bread containing an admixture of Indian meal: a variety of it is called specifically Boston brown bread.
4. In Cookery, to prepare with grated bread; cover with white of eggs and bread-crumbs.
5. To make broad; spread.
6. n. Breadth. Also brede.
7. In net-making, to form in meshes: net. Also breathe, brede.
8. n. A piece of embroidery; a braid.
9. To clean by rubbing with dry bread or with a bread-crust, as a drawing.
10. To provide with daily bread.

Wiktionary

1. n. uncountable A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals
2. n. countable Any variety of bread
3. n. slang money
4. v. transitive to coat with breadcrumbs

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To spread.
2. n. An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
3. n. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
4. v. (Cookery) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. informal terms for money
2. n. food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
3. v. cover with bread crumbs