onds and saffron, while its
wines are of good quality. The corn-crop, however, barely suffices for
three months' food. Other local industries are fishing and
silkworm-rearing. The most important among twenty small villages on the
island is Milna (pop. 2579), a steamship station, provided with
shipwrights' wharves. The early history of Brazza is obscure. In the
first years of the 13th century it was ruled by the piratical counts of
Almissa; but after a successful revolt and a brief period of liberty it
came under the dominion of Hungary. From 1413 to 1416 it was subject to
Ragusa; and in 1420 it passed, with the greater part of Dalmatia, under
Venetian sovereignty.

BREACH (Mid. Eng. _breche_, derived from the common Teutonic root
_brec_, which appears in "break," Ger. _brechen_, &c.), in general, a
breaking, or an opening made by breaking; in law, the infringement of a
right or the violation of an obligation or duty. The word is used in
various phrases: _breach of close_, the unlawful entry upon another
person's land (see TRESPASS); _breach of covenant or contract_, the
non-fulfilment of an agreement either to do or not to do some act (see
DAMAGES); _breach of the peace_, a disturbance of the public order (see
PEACE, BREACH OF); _breach of pound_, the taking by force out of a pound
things lawfully impounded (see POUND); _breach of promise of marriage_,
the non-fulfilment of a contract mutually entered into by a man and a
woman that they will marry each other (see MARRIAGE); _breach of trust_,
any deviation by a trustee from the duty imposed upon him by the
instrument creating the trust (_q.v_.).

BREAD, the name given to the staple food-product prepared by the baking
of flour. The word itself, O. Eng. _bread_, is common in various forms
to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. _Brot_, Dutch, _brood_, and Swed.
and Dan. _brot_; it has been derived from the root of "brew," but more
probably is connected with the root of "break," for its early uses are
confined to "broken pieces, or bits" of bread, the Lat. _frustum_, and
it was not till the 12th century that it took the place, as the generic
name of bread, of _hlaf_, "loaf," which appears to be the oldest
Teutonic name, cf. Old High Ger. _hleib_, and modern Ger. _Laib_.

_History._--Bread-baking, or at any rate the preparation of cakes from
flour or parched grain by means of heat, is one of the most ancient of
human arts. At Wangen and Robenhausen have been foun