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Feeding on milk.

Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

A feeding on nuts or mast. [Obs.] Crabb.

Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals.

Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Gay.

e or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

stocracy or the rich. -- High liver, one who indulges in a rich diet. -- High living, a feeding upon rich, pampering food. -- High Mass. (R. C. Ch.) See under Mass. -- High milling, a process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding. -- Hi…

Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars.

The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh.

or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.…

Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: (a) to

The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery. What livery is, we by common use in England know well enough, namely, that is, allowance of horse meat, as to keep horses at livery, the which word, I guess, is derived of livering or delivering forth their nightly…

Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.

ove, a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.

rks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.

Eating, or feeding upon, honey.

To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds.

The act or manner of feeding. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.