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The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [Obs.] Bacon.

A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.

as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.

Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity. A devout man . . . which gave much alms to the people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

artaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious. "Ambrosial food." "Ambrosial fragrance." Milton.

A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

ed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.…

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

An aperient medicine or food. Arbuthnot.

That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery.

Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger. Men must have appetite before they will eat. Buckle.

Exciting appetite; as, appetizing food. The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing. Sir W. Scott.

or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

A large fresh-water food fish of South America.

ttacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay.

A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma.

receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.