Bread

(brĕd), n. [A-S. bread, bred, Fries. brâd, Icel. braudle, Sw. & Dan. bröd; O. S. bröd, Dan. brood, Ger. brod, brot. The root is either A-S. breowan, imp. brew, Ger. brauen, to brew, bake, or, better, A-S. breotan, imp. breát, to break, for an older, breodan, imp. bread.]

1Sense 1. An article of food made by moistening and kneading, and usually fermenting, the flour or meal of some species of grain, and baking it.

2Sense 2. Food; support of life in general.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Gen. iii. 19.

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

Is the reward of virtue bread? Pope.