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Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.

Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds. Derham.

The act of feeding, or providing food. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

h lives during the 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.

The business of feeding or grazing cattle.

Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals. Ray.

Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.

Feeding or subsisting on fish.

h chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.

One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.

es of small moths of the genus Procris. The larvæ of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves.

A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion. Pumpkin seed. (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin. (b) (Zoöl.) The common pondfish.

Feeding on the pupæ of insects.

hiefly inhabit the tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, living in holes and feeding upon fruit. Called also palm crab. -- Purse net, a fishing net, the mouth of which may be closed or drawn together like a purse. Mortimer. Purse pride, pride of money; insolence proceeding from the possession of wealth. B…

atment of severe nervous disorder, as neurasthenia, by rest and isolation with systematic feeding and the use of massage and electricity.

Feeding on roots; root-eating.

A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run. Howitt.

The beaten path made, by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.