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Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance. [Slang,Eng.]

ferred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.

ere exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.

f a plant. trailer park. An area equipped to accommodate trailers (2), often with outlets supplying electrical power and water. Called also trailer camp, trailer court.

An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust. [Cant]

To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.

To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.

The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply. F. A. Walker.

To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.

of mind; vacuity of countenance. Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply of aliment. Arbuthnot.

To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.

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.

Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship.

called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.

Preparation; protection; provision; supply. [Obs.]

To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself. Isa. xliv 15 Enough to warm, but not enough to burn. Longfellow.

To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers. With tears watering the ground. Milton. Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands. Longfellow.

A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive.

a vessel or tube in which water may be circulated, thereby regulating the temperature or supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment. water- jacketed. Having a water jacket; -- as, a water-jacketed condenser.

A contrivance for measuring a supply of water delivered or received for any purpose, as from a street main.