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To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered for corruption." Dr. T. Dwight.

In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

nd related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater.

A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

Any neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa, and allied genera. The larvæ feed on plant lice.

To feed with pap. Beau. & Fl.

h lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.

d Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

Grass growing for feed; grazing.

To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.

One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon the leaves of plants, as the chafers.

Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals. Ray.

Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.

Feeding or subsisting on fish.

h chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.

d to the cuckoos. -- Plantain squirrel (Zoöl.), a Java squirrel (Sciurus plantani) which feeds upon plantains. -- Plantain tree (Bot.), the treelike herb Musa paradisiaca. See def. 1 (above).

One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

large, bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm.

One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.