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te, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Is. xliv. 14.

Capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body. Grew.

One who, or that which, nourishes. Milton.

Promoting growth; nutritious,

Nutritively; cherishingly.

The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

Nutritive; nourishing.

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.

Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

State or mode of being nourished. Bacon.

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue. Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate their nourishment. Sir I. Newton. His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons. Merivale.…

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.

Capable of self-nourishment; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, as opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.

A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire.

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.