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victual |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Victual \Vict"ual\, n. 1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See {Victuals}. --2 Chron. xi 23. Shak. He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. --Knolles. There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the movers. --Tennyson. Short allowance of victual. --Longfellow. 2. Grain of any kind [Scot.] --Jamieson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Victual \Vict"ual\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Victualed}or {Victualled}; p. pr & vb n. {Victualing} or {Victualling}.] To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as to victual an army; to victual a ship. I must go victual Orleans forthwith. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: victual n : any substance that can be used as food [syn: {comestible}, {edible}, {eatable}, {pabulum}, {victuals}] v 1: supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war" 2: lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage" 3: feed; of domestic animals (rare usage) 4: partake of victuals; esp. of animals
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