Bran
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) The European carrion crow.
(2): (n.) 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.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
BRAN . The burning of bran for incense is mentioned in Bar 6:43 as an accompaniment of the idolatrous worship of the women of Babylon.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
( Πίτυρα ) occurs only in the account of the Babylonian women in the apocryphal Epistle of Jeremiah ( Baruch 6:43), with reference to some idolatrous custom not elsewhere distinctly mentioned (see Fritzsche, Handb. in loc.): "The women also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume," etc., referring to the infamous practice of prostitution mentioned by Herodotus (i, 199). (See Babylon).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
(τὰ πίτυρα , tá pı́tura ): The women of Babylon are described as burning "bran for incense" in their unchaste idolatrous worship (Baruch 6:43).
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [5]
Name given to Fingal's dog.
