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ve writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.

rms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pcific Islands, where it is collected for food.

t numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inhabits the tropical Atlantic and swarms in June or July.

tal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. "A bowl or a pan." Chaucer.

, trypsin, steapsin and an amylolytic ferment, by which it acts upon all three classes of food stuffs. See Pancreas.

The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.

A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food.

Eating all kinds of food.

The habit or power of eating all kinds of food.

A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.

e 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.

Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. "Parasitic preachers." Milton.

Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc. Pastry cook, one whose occupation is to make pastry; as, the pastry cook of a hotel.

Food; nourishment. [Obs.] Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous. Spenser.

orm of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.

tient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney. In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary. -- Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary.

To stuff with food. [Obs.] Udall.

A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.

To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat. [The hen] went pecking by his side. Dryden. To peck at, to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at; to nag; to tease.

The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.