Bran

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bran \Bran\, n. [OE. bren, bran, OF. bren, F. bran, from Celtic;
     cf. Armor. brenn, Ir. bran, bran, chaff.]
     1. 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 of ground grain.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. (Zool.) The European carrion crow.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bran
       n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are
            separated from the flour by sifting
       2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "bran":
     air pollution, attritus, bark, barley, bird seed, capsule, case,
     cat food, chaff, chicken feed, chop, corn, corn shuck, cornhusk,
     cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, dog food, dust, dust ball, eatage,
     efflorescence, ensilage, fallout, farina, feed, filings, flour,
     fodder, forage, grain, grits, groats, hay, hull, husk, jacket,
     kittens, lint, mash, meal, oats, palea, pasturage, pasture, peel,
     pet food, pod, powder, provender, pussies, raspings, rind, sawdust,
     scratch, scratch feed, shell, shuck, silage, skin, slops, smut,
     soot, straw, swill, wheat
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  BRAN
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