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t is a necessary article. They would fight not for articles of faith, but for articles of food. Landor.

Want of appetite; loathing of food.

oung and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.

To try tasting, as food or drink. [Obs.]

nto the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue. Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Merivale.

ng a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp"tic (#), a.

Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [Prov. Eng.]

her vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

A pie; baked food. [Obs.] Gen. xl. 17. Shak.

) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there. Coleridge.

A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird (Zoöl.), the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction of barley) and candied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, use…

A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyræna, sometimes used as food.