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4 definitions found 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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