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ions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma. -- Nutritive polyp (Zoöl.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. -- Nu"tri*tive*ly, adv. -- Nu"tri*tive*ness,…

his own side behind him. -- To be off color, to be of a wrong color. -- To be off one's food, to have no appetite. (Colloq.)

, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.

A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.

g indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. (Zoöl.), eating both animal and vegetable food. -- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n.

Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food; as, omophagic feasts, rites.

-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus. Onion fish (Zoöl.), the grenadier. -- Onion fly (Zoöl.) a dipterous insect whose larva feeds upon the onion; especially, Anthomyia ceparum and Ortalis flexa. -- Wel…

weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.

cer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc. Farrow. -- Orderly room. (a) The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried. (b) The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders e…

beriza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting.

mollusk (Schizothærus Nuttallii) found on the northwest coast of America. It is excellent food, and is extensively used by the Indians. -- Sea otter. (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary.

Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. [R.] Thomson.

Of, pertaining to, or fit for, pabulum or food; affording food.

The act of feeding, or providing food. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Affording pabulum, or food; alimental. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.

A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.

ican freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidæ. It is highly esteemed as food.

Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.

a curious cup-shaped calyx. -- Palm cabbage, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food. -- Palm cat (Zoöl.), the common paradoxure. -- Palm crab (Zoöl.), the purse crab. -- Palm oil, a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil palm (Elæis Guineensis), and used in…