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A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as E. apua of Bermuda, and E. Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind.

A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolæmus).

p; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo. And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo. Coleridge.

tic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]

sisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

tertains another, whether gratuitosly or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord. Chaucer. "Fair host and Earl." Tennyson. Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

Deprived of the hulls. Hulled corn, kernels of maize prepared for food by removing the hulls.

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

Hungry; pinched for food. [Obs.] Milton.

Wanting food; starved. [Obs.] Shak.

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.

he various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food. Spenser.

themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts.

c regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.

ge of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth. Well may he then to you his cares impart. Dryden.

or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. Landor. Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contr…