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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
victual \vict"ual\ vi^t"'l, n.
1. food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. see victuals.
--2 chron. xi. 23. shak.
1913 webster
he was not able to keep that place three days for
lack of victual. --knolles.
1913 webster
there came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand
bare victual for the mowers. --tennyson.
1913 webster
short allowance of victual. --longfellow.
1913 webster
2. grain of any kind. scot. --jamieson.
1913 webster
see also:
victuals
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
victual \vict"ual\ vi^t"'l, v. t. imp. p. p. victualed
vi^t"'ld 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.
1913 webster
i must go victual orleans forthwith. --shak.
1913 webster
see also:
victualed victualled victualing victualling
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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: take in nourishment
also: victualling, victualled
see also:
comestible edible eatable pabulum victuals victualling
victualled
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