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BRAN

Volume 1 · 54 words · 1771 Edition

the skins or husks of corn, especially wheat ground, separated from the flour by a sieve or boulter. It is of wheat-bran that starch-makers make their starch. The dyers reckon bran among the not-cov-

louring drugs, and use it for making, what they call, the four waters, with which they prepare their several dyes.