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Webster 1913 Edition

Breakfast

Break′fast

,
Noun.
[
Break
+
fast
.]
1.
The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.
A sorry
breakfast
for my lord protector.
Shakespeare
2.
A meal after fasting, or food in general.
The wolves will get a
breakfast
by my death.
Dryden.

Break′fast

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
breakfasted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Breakfasting
.]
To break one’s fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.
First, sir, I read, and then I
breakfast
.
Prior.

Break′fast

,
Verb.
T.
To furnish with breakfast.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Breakfast

BREAK'FAST

,
Noun.
brek'fast. [break and fast.]
1.
The first meal in the day; or the thing eaten at the first meal.
2.
A meal, or food in general.

BREAK'FAST

,
Verb.
I.
brek'fast. To eat the first meal in the day.

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