VICTUAL

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

Grain of any kind. [Scot.] Jamieson.

3.
v.

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.


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