What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
To supply with food.
To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
To satisfy; gratify or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
To take food; to eat.
To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; - with on or upon.
To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
A grazing or pasture ground.
An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
A meal, or the act of eating.
The water supplied to steam boilers.
The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
