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A version to food; refusal to take nourishment. [Written also sitiophobia.]

ance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.

Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat. Heb. v. 12.

To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.

rom the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.

The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth. Cotton velvet, an imitation of velvet, made of cotton. -- Velvet cork, the best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous. -- Velvet crab a European crab (Portunus puber). When adu…

with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon.

or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.

other's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment. And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. Gen. xxi. 8.

Of or pertaining to the nourishment of animals.