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

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.

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

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

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

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.

Feeding on frogs. Quart. Rev.

To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. "Battening our flocks." Milton.

s of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

fierce. Bull bat (Zoöl.), the night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the…

estis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.

Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion. A prey for carrion kites. Shak. Carrion beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle that feeds habitually on dead animals; -- also called sexton beetle and burying beetle. There are many kinds, belonging mostly to the family Silphidæ. -- Carrion buzzard (Zoöl.), a…

Feeding upon onions. [R.] Sterling.