Search the Dictionary

ivated for its seeds (called ramtil, or niger, seeds) which yield a valuable oil used for food and as an illuminant.

Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.

rbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.

ished portion or measure; fixed allowance. The one right feeble through the evil rate, Of food which in her duress she had found. Spenser.

type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are essentially basement restaurants where liquors are served.

Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. "Fowls of ravyne." Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. Tennyson.

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

A dish of food that has been warmed again, hence, fig., something made up from old material; a rehash.

To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits. Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color. Glanvill.

A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.

Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.

at is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. Arbuthnot.

That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; especially, an article of food or drink.

A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice.

Sumptuous food; delicacies. [Obs.] Cotton. Regalia of a church, the privileges granted to it by kings; sometimes, its patrimony. Brande & C.

To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the esophagus and mouth. Quain.

to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food. Now I begin to relish thy advice. Shak. He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honors which he enjoys. Atterbury.

The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton.

Food; entertainment. [Obs.] Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.