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To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

The plant which bears the fruit. Feed him with apricots and dewberries. Shak.

To cause to take food; to feed. [R.] Shak.

To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men. A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. Sir W. Scott.

the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropical leguminous plant.

A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.

A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.

To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam. ix. 13.

Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.

Elm beetle (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles (esp. Galeruca calmariensis), which feed on the leaves of the elm. -- Elm borer (Zoöl.), one of several species of beetles of which the larvæ bore into the wood or under the bark of the elm (esp. Saperda tridentata). -- Elm butterfly (Zoöl.), one of several specie…

To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food. Beaumont.

To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.

One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvæ feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon,

Feeding on insects; insectivorous.

To feed or indulge like an epicure. Fuller.

To act as a bishop; to fill the office of a prelate. [Obs.] Feeding the flock episcopating. Milton.

Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars.

The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell.