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bran

bræn
WordNet
This is an organic sample. Bran is the outermost layers, ie the membranes of a grain of wheat. Bran is formed during the grinding of grain, where it is separated from the grain. Buckwheat chaff was used as a packaging material, especially for packaging clay pipes. Chaff or buckwheat.
This is an organic sample. Bran is the outermost layers, ie the membranes of a grain of wheat. Bran is formed during the grinding of grain, where it is separated from the grain. Buckwheat chaff was used as a packaging material, especially for packaging clay pipes. Chaff or buckwheat.
  1. (n) bran
    food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
  2. (n) bran
    broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
John Kellogg invented corn flakes, for a patient with bad teeth. Charles Post invented Grape Nuts. Dr. Kellogg was the manager of a Michigan health spa and Post was a patient. The spa was founded by Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker and pioneer of the early 1800s movement to eat more bran.
  1. Bran
    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.
  2. Bran
    (Zoöl) The European carrion crow.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) bran
    The outer coat of wheat, rye, or other farinaceous grain; the husky portion of ground wheat, separated from the flour by bolting.
  2. bran
    To steep in a bath of bran and water, as cloth before or after dyeing, or skins for tanning.
  3. (n) bran
    A name of the common crow
  4. bran
    A dialectal form of bren, burn.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Bran
    bran the refuse of grain: the inner husks of corn sifted from the flour: the coarser part of anything
Quotations
Avery Brooks
At least the box is full of something useful. [On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran]
Avery Brooks
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. bren, bran, OF. bren, F. bran, from Celtic; cf. Armor. brenn, Ir. bran, bran, chaff

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. bran, bran; prob. Celt.

Usage in the news

Millions of Americans now eat more high-fiber foods because doctors and nutritionists say oat bran and other high fiber grains aid digestion and help reduce cholesterol levels. nytimes.com

It would be pretty difficult to consume even one of the Oat Bran Brownies made by Elam, though I suspect the species that eats oats from a bucket might find the texture to its liking. nytimes.com

General Mills also has Total Oatmeal , which is advertised as having "more oat bran and more nutrition than Old Fashioned Quaker Oats ". nytimes.com

But the excitement over oat bran, once a lowly byproduct of the milling process but now the elixir of choice for health-conscious consumers, has yet to infect farmers of the upper Midwest, where most of the country's oats are grown. nytimes.com

OAT -BRAN-MUFFIN mania has reached a fever pitch. nytimes.com

Last week Between the Bread, a takeout business in New York City, was unable to supply its eager customers with oat -bran muffins because it was unable to get any oat bran. nytimes.com

It is made from rice bran oil, palm oil, coconut oil, herbs, essential oils, and no preservatives. qcsunonline.com

Real Housewives: Bran Ach/ WireImages. nypost.com

Bran Zucchini- Sunflower Seed Muffins from The Spa at the Grand Del Mar. dayspamagazine.com

Consumers simply tear off the panel to uncover the new one-an identity that is meant to position All-Bran as a more contemporary option for women. brandpackaging.com

Rice milling quality can be influenced by any factor that affects kernel strength, which is ultimately responsible for the kernel withstanding the processes of hulling and bran removal without breaking apart. deltafarmpress.com

Cottondale- Just across the street from Cottondale Elementary School sits Branning's garage and a nativity scene. jhg.com

Sesame and Rice Bran Oils. ardmoreite.com

Remember when you thought bran muffins were good for you. villagevoice.com

Used with corn, wheat, bran or rice, PFE temperature-controlled chilled nip rollers withstand high pressures and the related heat when opposing rolls are used to crush grain into cereal flakes. foodengineeringmag.com

Usage in scientific papers

R′ − Ki¯j ∇mφi∇m ¯φ The first equality, (1.6), is supergravity coupled to chiral matter in what we shall call the Brans-Dicke frame; the second equality, (1.7), is in the Einstein frame.
Conserved supercurrents and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity

Thus, the canonical definition of the stress tensor can (and does!) differ between the Brans-Dicke and the Einstein frames.
Conserved supercurrents and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity

Brans-Dicke and Einstein frames, and then in the component context where we demonstrate that the Einstein frame currents do give the standard globally supersymmetric currents when supergravity is decoupled.
Conserved supercurrents and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity

The Brans-Dicke frame corresponds to choosing the conventional ly chiral superfield φ0 to be unity.
Conserved supercurrents and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity

Within the Brans-Dicke frame, we may freely set the entire superfields G and R to zero, and then send κ2 to zero.
Conserved supercurrents and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity

Usage in literature

She was a bran-new ship, and had come out of Brest on her first cruise only the day before we fell in with her. "Under the Meteor Flag" by Harry Collingwood

Good you drink bran-dee vis vater? "Devon Boys" by George Manville Fenn

Priscilla leaped off her bicycle at the door of Bran-nigan's shop. "Priscilla's Spies" by George A. Birmingham

Squeeze and manipulate the bran bag until the water resembles a thin porridge. "The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.)" by Grant Hague

Most of the watch were "on the bran," that is, were in the boats stationed along the edge of the ice, on the look-out for whales. "Peter the Whaler" by W.H.G. Kingston

I'se dat hungry I c'd eat bran! "Chums in Dixie" by St. George Rathborne

The thing is to avoid putting in more water than the bran can easily absorb and hold. "Papers on Health" by John Kirk

It's a bran new invention in the fishing line. "Handy Andy, Volume One" by Samuel Lover

In an hour after, rub them with flannel, dipped in bran and powdered whiting. "A Treatise on Domestic Economy" by Catherine Esther Beecher

It consists of turnips, rice, chaff, bran, hay, and sea biscuit. "Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals" by R. Lee

Usage in poetry
“Rice, bran and clover fine I give him now,
To nourish his rich dmak, of noble size;
I comb his soft wool with a wooden comb;
He is a dear and precious sacrifice.
An' when your pig's a-fatted pretty well
Wi' teäties, or wi' barley an' some bran,
Why you've a-got zome vlitches vor to zell,
Or hang in chimney-corner, if you can.
I'll be the pride of the whole derned spread.
With a fust class Stetson on my head.
A bran new slicker tied on behind—
It's strange how yore clo'se improves your mind.
When the red flails of the battle-field's threshers
Beat out the continent's wheat from its bran,
While the wind scatters the chaffy seceshers,
What will become of our sweet little man?
"Have you a job to-day, sir, to give a working man?
My stomach's full of hay, sir, my children live on bran."
"I really can't delay, sir," the busy man replied,
"Please call some other day, sir, my car is just outside."
Bran has built his homestead high where the hills may shield her,
Where the young bird waits the spring, where the dawns are fair,
Said: "I'll name my trees for her, since I may not yield her
Stars of morning for her feet, of evening for her hair."