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eous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.

The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.

to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals. [Written also chlorophyl.]

upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

resh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.

A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

Pertaining to food; edible. Johnson.

The act of taking food.

The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.

One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

y or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

llusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

axis. -- Coeliac flux, Coeliac passion (Med.), a chronic flux or diarrhea of undigested food.

, not truly parasitic, which lives in with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food. Both species may be benefited by the association.

wder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.