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[ Thoughe it be clept the Tour of Babiloyne, zit natheles there were ordeyned with inne many Mansiouns and many gret duellynge Places, in length and brede . On bredet, abroad. Sorwe yblowe on brede. Mandeville , Travels, p. 41. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 530. bread3 (brēd), v . t . [Var. of braid1 ; breden , bred an , bregdan : see braid1 .] In net - mak ing , to form in meshes; net. Also breathe , brede. To bread or breathe a net is to make a net. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 359. Branch of the Breadfruit-tree ( Artocarpus incisa), with staminate and pistillate inflorescence. and though insipid it forms the principal article of food in the South Sea islands. Another species of Artocarpus (A. integrifolia ) yields a coarser sort of breadfruit, called jack - fruit. See Artocarpus. Also called bread-tree. (b) A rubiaceous shrub of northern Australia, Gardenia edulis, bearing a small edible fruit. - Hottentot breadfruit, of South Africa, the stem of Encephalartos Caffer, which is stripped of its leaves, buried in the ground for some months, pounded, when it furnishes a quantity of farinaceous matter resembling sago. Also called Kajir - bread.