Hypertext Webster Gateway: "victual"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Victual \Vict"ual\, n.
1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See {Victuals}.
--2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak.
He was not able to keep that place three days for
lack of victual. --Knolles.
There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand
Bare victual for the movers. --Tennyson.
Short allowance of victual. --Longfellow.
2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Victual \Vict"ual\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Victualed}or
{Victualled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Victualing} or {Victualling}.]
To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with
food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to
victual a ship.
I must go victual Orleans forthwith. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
victual
n : any substance that can be used as food [syn: {comestible}, {edible},
{eatable}, {pabulum}, {victuals}]
v 1: supply with food; "The population was victualed during the
war"
2: lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long
voyage"
3: feed; of domestic animals (rare usage)
4: partake of victuals; esp. of animals
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