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Word Meanings - GALACTOPHAGOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Feeding on milk.

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  • FEEDING
    1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening. 2. That which is eaten; food. 3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
  • FEED
    f, fr. f food; akin to C. f, OFries f, f, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, 1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak. 2.
  • FEEDER
    An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith. 2. One
  • STALL-FEED
    To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.
  • OVERFEED
    To feed to excess; to surfeit.
  • UNDERFEED
    To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.
  • KNIFEEDGE; KNIFE-EDGE
    A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of

 

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