| Feed (feed) |
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| v. t. | (f***emacr]d) |
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| Feed |
[imp. ***
p. p. Fed (f&ebreve]d); p. pr. *** vb.
n. Feeding.] [AS. f&emacr]dan, fr.
f da food; akin to OS. fdian, OFries.
f***emacr]da, |
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.
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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.
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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.
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