wheaten, a.
(ˈhwiːt(ə)n)
Forms: 1 hwæten, huaeten, 3 ȝweten, 4 hueten, 5, 6 whetyn, 6 whettyn, whe(a)ton, 7 wheten, 6– wheaten.
[OE. hwǽten = MDu. weiten, MHG. weiȥîn: see wheat n. and -en4.]
1. Composed of the grain or flour of wheat.
Sometimes applied spec. to bread made of the whole grain (‘wholemeal’) as distinct from white bread.
| 805–31 in Sweet O.E. Texts 444, cxx huaetenra hlafa & xxx clenra. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 322 Mid hwætenan meluwe. c 1290 St. Cuthbert 52 in S. Eng. Leg. 360 Clene ȝwetene flour. 1340 Ayenb. 82 Þe wyfman grat myd childe, þet more hi uynt smak in ane zoure epple þanne ine ane huetene lhoue. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 33 Bynd hym vppe with fflour of Rys, oþer with whetyn floure. 1530 Palsgr. 288/1 Whetynbreed, pain bourgois. c 1530 Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 120, I clynge as doth a wheton cake. 1577 Harrison England iii. i. 95 b/1 in Holinshed, Wheaton bread, so named because the colour..resembleth the graie wheat. 1608 in J. Nicholl Comp. Ironm. (1866) 140 Wheate..to be ground into meal and baked into white and wheten bread, and the wheaten to contayne xj oz. the penny wheten loffe, and the three-halfpenny white loves after the same rate. 1638 Penkethman Artach. H 2, The Law doth appoint three sorts of Bread only to be made, viz. white, wheaten, and houshold. 1709 Act 8 Anne c. 19 Table, The White Loaves are One Half, and the Wheaten Three Quarters of the Weight of Household Loaves. 1727 De Foe Syst. Magic i. i. (1840) 4 Our penny wheaten brown bread loaves. 1818 Colebrooke Import Colon. Corn 69 The bread made of this mixed flour is found to be..better..than that made with plain wheaten meal. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 367 Rye-bread is denser than wheaten-bread. 1857 Miller Elem. Chem., Org. (1862) xiii. §2. 839 Bread made from wheaten flour. 1919 Q. Rev. July 182 The food and fuel regulations respecting wheaten bread, sugar, and ‘lightless nights’ had been withdrawn. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 503 Wheatenmeal with honey and nutmeg. 1944 L. Mumford Condition of Man vi. 202 Wheaten bread. |
2. Of or belonging to wheat as a plant; made of the stalks or straw of wheat.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. John xii. 24 Þæt hwætene corn wunað ana, buton hyt fealle on eorþan & sy dead. 1552 Huloet, Wheaten branne. 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. ii. (1587) 17 There waited summer naked starke all saue a wheaten hat. 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. i. 1 Apparent shew of wheaten leaues. 1602 Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 41 As Peace should still her wheaten Garland weare. 1681 Grew Musæum iv. iii. 376 The Stalk as thick as a Wheaten-straw. 1730 Thomson Autumn 1 Crown'd with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf. 1827 Clare Sheph. Cal. 49 Oft making ‘love-knots’ in the shade, Of blue-green oat or wheaten blade. 1865 Swinburne Poems & Ball., In Mem. Landor 9 In many a tender wheaten plot Flowers that were dead Live. |
† 3. wheaten plum = wheat-plum. Obs.
| 1542 [see wheat-plum, quot. 1538]. 1552 Huloet, Wheaten plummes, whiche be whyte or yelowe plummes, cærea pruna. 1594 Barnfield Affect. Sheph. ii. xlii, Bullas and wheaton Plumbs. |
4. Of a pale honey colour. wheaten terrier, a soft-coated terrier belonging to a breed originally developed in Ireland and distinguished by its pale golden wavy coat. Also absol. as n. denoting the dog (also, the colour).
| 1943 Our Dogs 5 Mar. 234/5 The soft-coated Wheaten Terrier has now been recognised by the English Kennel Club. Ibid. 19 Mar. 281/2 There were 30 entries of Wheatens at the Irish Kennel Club show. 1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 146 Wheaten-coloured Terriers of soft coats have existed in Ireland for a considerable time. 1959 Times 14 Aug. 1/7 (Advt.), Soft⁓coated Wheaten Terrier puppies. 1971 F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 480 The mature Wheaten is an attractive, compact, well-built dog, strong and energetic. 1975 Country Life 6 Feb. 311 The Border terrier..coat of either wheaten, red, grizzle and tan, or blue and tan. |