Loaf \Loaf\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Loafed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Loafing}.] [G. laufen to run, Prov. G. loofen. See {Leap}.] To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. `` Loafing vagabonds.'' --W. Black.
Loaf \Loaf\, v. t. To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
Loaf \Loaf\, n.; pl. {Loaves}. [OE. lof, laf, AS. hl[=a]f; akin to G. laib, OHG. hleip, Icel. hleifr, Goth. hlaifs, Russ. khlieb', Lith. kl["e]pas. Cf. {Lady}, {Lammas}, {Lord}.] Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake. --Bacon.
{Loaf sugar}, refined sugar that has been formed into a conical loaf in a mold.
"We have to settle for three-fourths of a loaf," the official said.
Littering the counters were a plate that previously held four salmon cutlets, an open loaf of bread, orange peels and pitchers of milk, water and Kool-Aid.
Roquefort is made from unpasteurized ewe's milk, whose curd is molded into a traditional round "loaf" and stored in caves that surround the village.
The Joseph Kirschner Co. of Augusta, Maine is voluntarily recalling about 4,500 pounds of its honey loaf because it could possibly cause trichinosis, according to the Agriculture Department.
I stumble to the kitchen, turn on the light, step over the cats, and reach for the spatula, the loaf of Wonder Bread and the peanut butter.
Some make extravagant appeals for a third loaf - "for my pregnant sister who can't come in." They beg to have bread air-expressed to distant relatives.
The business, called "Hi Honey, I'm Home," offers a choice of three entrees nightly and has a total menu of 30 entrees ranging from grilled salmon steak with vegetables to meat loaf with mashed potatoes.
Bakers are demanding an increase in the price for a standard loaf of French bread from 13 cents to 16 cents.
A loaf of bread costs 10 cents, five times what it cost early last month.
Ten years ago, Ms. Landers ran in her column a recipe for meat loaf.
"That's perestroika _ we're not moving forward, we're going backward," said Viktor Lyubeznov, a 52-year-old electrician who went to four Moscow bread stores before finding a loaf.
In Holland, for example, national health standards still rule out France's baguette bread loaf, judged lacking in nutrition.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has said that bread is so cheap that children sometimes use a loaf for a soccer ball.
Each loaf, which cost the campaign about $1.80, came with a copy of the recipe and a poem.
A Maine meat packer is voluntarily recalling about 4,500 pounds of its honey loaf distributed in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire because it possibly could cause trichinosis, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
I haven't been to a supermarket in 10 years." Ann's husband, a free-lance writer, has over the years learned how to turn out a decent salmon loaf and a table conducive to conversation.
Invert the loaf in the basket onto the baking tray.
In a stall, he washed himself with a bucket of water filled from a standpipe in the courtyard. Passing the room next to his own - home to a family of four - he bought a small white loaf from a woman who had set up shop on his doorstep.
They include chestnut soup, stuffed acorn squash and tofu loaf.
If the price of wheat were to double, the price of the loaf would increase to only $1.05, Brown said.
A woman breaks down and cries as she begs her friend for a few drops of broth. When Arouch steals a moment with his girlfriend, Allegra (Wendy Gazelle), he embraces her as if he were a starving man sniffing a loaf of warm bread.
Both major incumbents have the charisma of meat loaf.