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to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak.

which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith.

That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.

A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of File.

To feed to excess; to surfeit.

To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.

To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.

resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell (Zoöl.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Br…

A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia.

opical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

A beetle which feeds on flowers.

Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.