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That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls. Hooker.

That which nourishes; nutriment. Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Pope.

o nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma. -- Nutritive polyp (Zoöl.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. -- Nu"tri*…

the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.

The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.

d fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.

ly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel. "With flags and pennants trimmed." Drayton.

of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.

To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head. Cowper. Sherburne.

Perk; pert; jaunty; trim. There amid perky larches and pines. Tennyson.

Small, little; of a woman or girl, of small size and trim figure.

To trim. [Obs.] Chaucer. To pick at, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance. -- To pick a bone with. See under Bone. -- To pick a thank, to curry favor. [Obs.] Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To pick off. (a) To pluck; to remove by picking. (b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy…

pots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." Burton. "Meadows trim with daisies pied." Milton. Pied antelope (Zoöl.), the bontebok. -- Pied-billed grebe (Zoöl.), the dabchick. -- Pied blackbird (Zoöl.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus. -- Pied finch (Zoöl.) (a) The chaffinch. (b)…

A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur. [Obs.]

A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.

A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.

y of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism.

lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.

An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds. Derham.