loading

(16’ding), n. [Verbal n. of load?, v.] ed ma of bread; hence, any shaped or molded 1. The act of putting on a load.—2. A cargo; ma of cake, sugar, or the like. a burden; lading; also, anything that makes The enemy of Helle. seyde Dic ut lapides ist i panes part of a load.— 38. Anything that is added to fiant: that is to seye, Sey that theise Stones be made a substance or material in order to give it Loves. Mandeville, Travels, p. 98. weight or body: as, the China clay or pearl-white There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 2. 72. used for loading note-paper.—4. In art, a heavy charge of opaque color. See load?2, v. t., 7. A hot smoking loaf of rye-and-Indian bread. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 199. Loading is the use of opaque colour in heavy ma es which actually protrude from the canvas and themselves poy loaf. (a) In the Gr. Ch., same as holy lamb. See lamb. (0) In the medieval ch. in England, the ble ed catch the light, as the mountains do on the moon. bread; a eulogia. P. G. Hamerton, Graphic Arts, p. 304. The Parishioners of every Parish shall offer every Sun- 5. In insurance, that part of the charge or preday, at the time of the Offertory, the just value and price mium on a policy which constitutes its share of the holy loaf. to the use of their Pastors and Curates, of the expenses of management. and that in such order and course as they were wont to find and pay the said holy loaf. The terms loading and “margin” have come to bear a Book of Common Prayer (1549) (rubric). somewhat extended meaning. They are now used to designate the difference between the premiums payable by Loafed lettucet, headed lettuce. the a ured and the net premiums deduced from any ta- Laictue crespue [¥.], loafed or headed lettice. ble that may be employed for the time. Nomenclator (1585). (Nares.) Eneye. Brit., XIII. 173. Loaves and fishes, figuratively, temporal benefits, as