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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent &
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr & vb n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten,
AS etan; akin to OS etan, OFries eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan
G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw ["a]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan, Ir
& Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr 'e`dein, Skr. ad [root]6.
Cf {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
of food not liquid; as to eat bread. ``To eat grass as
oxen.'' --Dan. iv 25.
They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
cvi. 28.
The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
--Gen. xli.
20.
The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings
xiii. 28.
With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the
junkets eat. --Milton.
The island princes overbold Have eat our substance.
--Tennyson.
His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
--Thackeray.
2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
cancer; to waste or wear away to destroy gradually; to
cause to disappear.
{To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}.
{To eat of} (partitive use). ``Eat of the bread that can not
waste.'' --Keble.
{To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said (See the
Citation under {Blurt}.)
{To eat out}, to consume completely. ``Eat out the heart and
comfort of it.'' --Tillotson.
{To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to
windward of her
Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eat \Eat\, v. i.
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in
distinction from liquid, food; to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam.
ix 13.
2. To taste or relish; as it eats like tender beef.
3. To make one's way slowly.
{To eat}, {To eat in} or {into}, to make way by corrosion; to
gnaw; to consume. ``A sword laid by which eats into
itself.'' --Byron.
{To eat to windward} (Naut.), to keep the course when
closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
eat
v 1: take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you
eat for dinner last night?"
2: eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M.
because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat
yet fo I gladly accept your invitation"
3: take in food; used of animals only: "This dog doesn't eat
certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn: {feed}]
4: use up as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a
lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through
20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: {consume}, {eat up}, {use
up}, {deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]
5: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way: "What's eating
you?" [syn: {eat on}]
6: cause to rust; "The acid corroded the metal" [syn: {corrode},
{rust}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of
mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
"I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat-
Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant
"eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe,
monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was
eating my dinner, but enjoying it I had dined an hour before."
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