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rovide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like. Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of sword before that bloody day. Spenser.

providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. Chaucer. The ill purveyance of his page. Spenser.

One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.

To disfurnish; to strip. [Obs.] Heywood.

Want of provisions; [Obs.] Spenser.

Purveyor; acater. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. [Obs.]

A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court. Chaucer.

hich it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. Memory is the purveyor of reason. Rambler.

ration; provision. [Obs.] Spenser. They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer.

See Purveyance.

One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. Jer. Taylor.

A proveditor; a purveyor. Busied with the duties of a provedore. W. Irving.

One who makes provision; a purveyor. [R.] De Foe.

One who provides; a purveyor. [Obs.] "The chief provisor of our horse." Ford.

Purveyance. [Obs.] Chaucer.