LOAF  , properly the See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of See also:

• BREAD

bread made at one See also:

• BAKING

baking, hence the smaller portions into which the bread is divided for retailing . These are of See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform See also:

• SIZE

size (see BAKING) and are named according to shape (" See also:

• TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin loaf," " cottage loaf," &c.), See also:

• WEIGHT

weight ("quartern loaf," &c.), or quality of See also:

• FLOUR

flour (" See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

brown loaf," &c.) . " Loaf," O.E. hldf, is a word See also:

• COMMON

common to See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages; cf . Ger . Laib, or Leib, See also:

• DAN

Dan. lev, Goth. hlaifs; similar words with the same meaning are found in See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian, Finnish and Lettish, but these may have been adapted from Teutonic . The ultimate origin is unknown, and it is uncertain whether " bread " (q.v.) or " loaf " is the earlier in usage . The O.E. hlaf is seen in " See also:

• LAMMAS (0. Eng. hlammaesse, hlafmaesse, from hlaf, loaf, and maesse, mass, "loaf-mass")

Lammas " and in " See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord," i.e. hlaford for hlafweard, the loaf-keeper, or " bread-warder "; cf. the O.E. word for a See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household servant hlaf-ceta, loaf-eater . The See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. companio, one who shares, pans, bread, Eng . " See also:

• COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion," was probably an See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the Goth. gahlaiba, O.H . Ger. gileipo, messmate, comrade . The word " loaf " is also used in See also:

• SUGAR

sugar manufacture, and is applied to sugar shaped in a mass like a See also:

• CONE (Gr. Kwvos)

cone, a " Sugar-loaf," and to the small knobs into which refined sugar is cut, or " loaf-sugar." The See also:

• ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology of the verb " to loaf," i.e. to idle, lounge about, and the substantive " loafer," an idler, a lazy vagabond, has been much discussed . R .

H . See also:

• DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON (1819–'897)
• DANA, FRANCIS (1743-1811)
• DANA, JAMES DWIGHT (1813-1895)

Dana (Two Years before the See also:

• MAST (2) (Anglo-Saxon maest, food, common to some Teutonic languages, and ultimately connected with " meat")
• MAST (I) (O. Eng. maest; a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. malus; from the medieval latinized form mast us comes Fr. malt)

Mast, 184o) called the word " a newly invented See also:

• YANKEE

Yankee word." J . R . See also:

• LOWELL
• LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE (1856— )
• LOWELL, CHARLES RUSSELL (1835-1864)
• LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL (1819-1891)
• LOWELL, JOHN (1743-1802)

Lowell (Biglow Papers, and See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, Introd.) explains it as See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German in origin, and connects it with laufen, to run, and states that the dialectical See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form lofen is used in the sense of " See also:

• SAUNTER

saunter up and down." This explanation has been generally accepted . The New See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary rejects it, however, and states that laufen is not used in this sense, but points out that the German Landlaufer, the English obsolete word landlouper," or " landloper," one who wanders about the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, a vagrant or vagabond, has a resemblance in meaning . J . S . See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

Farmer and W . E . See also:

• HENLEY, JOHN (1692-1759)
• HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST (1849-1903)

Henley's Dictionary of See also:

• SLANG

Slang and its Analogues gives as See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French synonyms of " loafer," See also:

• CHEVALIER, ALBERT (1861– )
• CHEVALIER, MICHEL (1806-1879)
• CHEVALIER, ULYSSE (1841– )

chevalier de la loupe and loupeur .