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Food

FOOD, n. [See Feed.]
1. In a general sense, whatever is eaten by animals for nourishment, and whatever supplies nutriment to plants.
2. Meat; aliment; flesh or vegetables eaten for sustaining human life; victuals; provisions; whatever is or may be eaten for nourishment.
Feed me with food convenient for me. Prov 30.
3. Whatever supplies nourishment and growth to plants, as water, carbonic acid gas, etc. Manuring substances furnish plants with food.
4. Something that sustains, nourishes and augments. Flattery is the food of vanity.
FOOD, v.t. To feed. [Not in use.]
food appears in definitions for these words:
Abstemious Abstemiousness Abstinent Act Adansonia Agaric Agree Alburn Alco Aliment Alimental Alimentally Alimentary Alimonious Alligator-pear Allowance Alms Ambrosia Amore Anaconda Anguilla Animal Animal-flower Anorexy Antipathy Appetite Archdapifer Armadillo Arrow-root Assimilate Assimilation Attainable Bagre Bairn Bake Bakemeats Banana Bass Bear Beast Bee Bee-bread Beech Belly Belly-timber Bethlehem Bind Bird-catching Blackness Board Boarded Boarder Bobo Boscage Botargo Bread Bread-room Breadless Breakfast Browse Buckwheat Bulimy Burbot Burn Butcher Butterwort Cabbage Camel Capelan Carnivorous Carrion Cassavi Cater Cateress Cates Cattle Chaff Charge Chavender Chestnut-tree Chew Chick-weed Chickling-vetch Chub Chylifaction Chyme Cibarious Clover Cloy Coarseness Cocoa Coeliac Commons Competent Concealment Concoct Concoction Condiment Confine Consumption Content Convenient Conversion Corn Cow Cram Crammed Crane Crave Craving Craw-fish Crum Cry Cud Curd Custard Daintiness Dainty Declivous Deer Delicacy Delicate Dependent Destitute Diet Dieter Dietetic Dietetical Dieting Different Digest Digester Digestion Disagree Disagreeable Disgust Dish Dislike Disrelish Distaste Dormouse Down Duck-meat Ducks-meat Eat Eatable Edible Eel Elephant Enucleation Epiglot Ermin Esculent Esophagus Excellence Expend Fall Famine Famish Famishing Fare Fast Faster Fasting Fat Fatherlasher Fatling Favorable Feed Feeder Feeding Feeler Filch Fish Flashy Flesh Fleshdiet Fleshmeat Fodder Foddered Foddering Fond Fondness Food Foodful Foodless Foody Fool Forage Forager Foraging Foster-dam Fosterment Fother Fowl Fowler Fricassee Frogfish Froise Frumenty Gape Gluttonous Gluttony Gnaw Goat Good Gorge Grain Grass Grateful Grayling Greedily Greediness Greedy Green Grinder Gruel Gullet Gulosity Gut Haddock Halibut Hand Hare Harmful Harvest Hearty Heavy Herbage Hommony Hope Horsemeat Humblebee Humming-bird Hunger Hunger-starved Hungering Hungerly Hungred Hungry Hunt Hunter Hunting Hyena Indigestion Ingestion Ingrate Intelligential Intemperate Irritation Jacamar Juncate Kan Kill Knapsack Lap Lickerish Light Like Little Loach Lobster Loche Lote Lothe Lothing Lunch Luscious Luxury Macerate Maintain Maintenance Mangostan Manna Mastic Mastication Masticatory Meal Meat Meat-offering Mess Milkporridge Mill Misdiet Moody Morsel Mouth Mutton Nauseate Necessary Nice Nicety Notice Nourishing Nourishment Noxious Nunchion Nurse Nurture Nutriment Nutrimental Nutritive Oast Onion Orbis Orphanotrophy Ortolan Otomo Ovarious Oven Pabular Pabulous Pabulum Panada Pannage Pap Parrot Pasture Paunch Pease Peck Pecking Pelican Penetrant Pepper-box Pernicious Pheasant Piaba Pica Pie Pike Pinch Pittance Pork Porpess Porridge Porridge-pot Potage Potato Proboscis Procure Produce Profusion Protrude Provender Provision Pudding Racoon Raiment Rane Rapacious Raven Reception Recruit Redundant Refresh Refreshment Relish Repair Repast Repasture Ric Rich Roach Roast Roballo Rospo Rot Rumination Salad Salep Salive Salt Samp Sanded Sauce Sea-fowl Sea-pye Seasoning Seethe Sepawn Serve Sesamum Shack Sharp Sharpen Sheeps-head Shelling Shrimp Sister Slabber Slop Smelt Sop Sopped Soup Sour Spider Spoon-meat Squirrel Steam Steam-boiler Steward Stomach Sturgeon Subsist Sufficiently Sumptuary Supply Support Sustenance Sustentation Swallow-wort Swine Table Take Tantalize Taster Throat Tinge Trash Trencher Tripe Trout Tumbril Tung Turky Turnep Unassimilated Unfed Unwholesome Use Vanity Vaporous Viand Victuals Voracious Want Waste Water-gruel Wax Web White-clover White-pot Whitlether Wild

 

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