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bran
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Word definitions for bran in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bran \Bran\, n. [OE. bren, bran, OF. bren, F. bran, from Celtic; cf. Armor. brenn, Ir. bran, bran, chaff.] 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "the husk of wheat, barley, etc., separated from the flour after grinding," from Old French bren "bran, scurf, scales, feces" (12c., Modern French bran ), perhaps connected with Gaulish *brenno- "manure," or with burn (v.). The word also was used ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bran , also known as miller's bran , is the hard outer layers of cereal grain . It consists of the combined aleurone and pericarp . Along with germ , it is an integral part of whole grains , and is often produced as a byproduct of milling in the production ...
Usage examples of bran.
Will and Bran pulled them out: besoms made like those for old-fashioned sweeping, but with the twigs longer and wider-spread.
What with all the hammering, sharpening, burnishing and polishing, we might have been such a city of smiths as Bran the Blessed encountered in one of his fabled journeys.
Bran Mastis materialized in front of them, a deadly sneer on his face.
Choose barley, bran, brown rice, bulgur, couscous, millet, oats, polenta, or quinoa as a cooked cereal or grain with your dinner.
As she slept amidst the rolling grasslands, Catelyn dreamt that Bran was whole again, that Arya and Sansa held hands, that Rickon was still a babe at her breast.
The spearman under my hand had been scalded through the joints of his armor with boiled bran poured on him as he climbed the siege ladder.
I keep it locked, the key sunk deep in a sealer jar filled with bran cereal.
Mum, and then Jacob was upset because Ronnie had finished the Bran Flakes and instead of apologizing or offering to go out and get some more from the village shop he was giving Jacob a sermonette on not always being able to have what you want, though the problem had been caused by Ronnie doing precisely that.
The while, Roich and Bran were stintless in their praise of the bear-fighting youth or New-man.
Welpe Brans nach ihm auf dem Thron sitzen, wenn wir nicht nach Beli drauf sitzen konnten?
Mikken had given him a rusty old visorless helm from the armory, but Bran seldom troubled to wear it.
Surely you were all too ignorant to expect it, but the bran spontaneously generated these aspergillus fungi.
Communications, navigation, weapons, the power suit: these things caught Brans attention, and so did her test marks, scored by Adopolous and the late Ragir Parnell.
When a sharp piece of iron smashed nine-year-old Brans fingernail and punched a vee-shaped segment under the rest of it, to put agonizing pressure on the bruised nerves, the boy had felt the worst pain of his entire life and nearly died of shock.
Plastic Smile chuckledthe handle bobbed with his merrimentand pushed Brans mother into the lock.