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To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

Food; nourishment. [Obs.]

Nourishing. [Obs.] T. Carew (1633).

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural. Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof. Ex. xxiii. 10.

l shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.

re or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

Affording no aliment or nourishment. [Obs.] Bacon.

To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment. [R.]

Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment. E. Darwin.

Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.

To breed; to nourish. [R.] W. Montagu.

te of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

nd-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which the…

To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.

Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.

The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.

Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. Chaucer. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat. Gen. i. 29. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat…

or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.

A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.