victual

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victual - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Victual \Vict"ual\ (v[i^]t"'l), n.
     1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
        --2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak.
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              He was not able to keep that place three days for
              lack of victual.                      --Knolles.
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              There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand
              Bare victual for the mowers.          --Tennyson.
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              Short allowance of victual.           --Longfellow.
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     2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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  Victual \Vict"ual\ (v[i^]t"'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualed
     (v[i^]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.
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           I must go victual Orleans forthwith.     --Shak.
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victual - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  victual
      n 1: any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible,
           edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, 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