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Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] Moore.

To feed or pasture. [Obs.]

A feeding on nuts or mast. [Obs.] Crabb.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.

Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals.

Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Gay.

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift.

One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage. The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want. J. Philips.

Xanlhorrhoea). -- Gum animal (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago. -- Gum animi or animé. See Animé. -- Gum arabic, a gum yielded mostly by several species of Acacia (chiefly A. vera and A. Arabica) growing in Africa and Southern Asia; -- called also gum acacia. East…

e or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

Zoöl.), a moth (Phobetron pithecium), the larva of which has curious side appendages, and feeds on fruit trees. -- Hag's tooth (Naut.), an ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.

or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated. Feed heater. See under Feed.

A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.]

so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.

To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.

they are salted and smoked in great quantities. Herring gull (Zoöl.), a large gull which feeds in part upon herrings; esp., Larus argentatus in America, and L. cachinnans in England. See Gull. -- Herring hog (Zoöl.), the common porpoise. -- King of the herrings. (Zoöl.) (a) The chimæra (C. monstrosa) which follows t…