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To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls. [Formerly written also maunch and mounch.] I could munch your good dry oats. Shak.

arval state, is injurious to carrots; -- called also carrot fly. -- Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] McElrath. -- Negro monkey (Zoöl.), the moor monkey.

ench republican calendar [1792-1806]. It commenced December 21, and ended January 19. See VendÉmiaire.

ourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat. "A peck of provender." Shak.

To allege or adduce in proof, support, or vendication; to offer in excuse; as, the law of nations may be pleaded in favor of the rights of ambassadors. Spenser. I will neither plead my age nor sickness, in excuse of faults. Dryden.

It began January 20, and ended February 18. See Vendémiaire.

n calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.

Provender or food. [Obs.] One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day. Beau. & Fl.

To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for. [Obs.] Nash.

purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.

Spike lavender. See Lavender. Oil of spike (Chem.), a colorless or yellowish aromatic oil extracted from the European broad-leaved lavender, or aspic (Lavendula Spica), used in artist's varnish and in veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of turpentine, which it much resembles.

ench republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendémiaire.

, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

To dispose of in trade; to sell or vend. [Obs.] Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua's law Is death to any he that utters them. Shak. They bring it home, and utter it commonly by the name of Newfoundland fish. Abp. Abbot.

To sell; to vend. [Obs.] Therefore did those nations vent such spice. Sir W. Raleigh.

endar adopted by the first French republic. It began February 19, and ended March 20. See Vend.

A collection of wagons; wagons, collectively. Wagonage, provender, and a piece or two of cannon. Carlyle.

The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk. [Eng.]

A basket; esp., a straw provender basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.