the act of consuming food

The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.

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The act of chewing and swallowing food.

That being done, we into Johnson's house, and were much made of, eating and drinking. – Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright by Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

Once, however, I called exactly at dinner- time, and was shown into the eating- room. – A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 by Otto von Kotzebue

It is to be holy in things like eating and drinking. – The Master's Indwelling by Andrew Murray

Next morning I saw him eating his breakfast and said " Good- morning" to him. – The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler

There he is, eating his heart out. – The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle

" You don't look as if you'd been eating the right kind of things, Enoch," she said, kindly. – The Enchanted Canyon by Honoré Willsie Morrow

Why can we not live without eating? – Pinocchio in Africa by Cherubini

He's eating his supper." – The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey

He was mighty good eating, too. – Gold Seekers of '49 by Edwin L. Sabin

Marion heard it all while eating a luncheon. – Whispering Smith by Frank H. Spearman

" I guess there's not much to be got in the way of eating in the house. – Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott

You sit down and go on eating. – The Holiday Round by A. A. Milne

Now, the change in the worthy man, after eating for four years at our table, was such that many an one would have said it was a miracle. – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

He loved good eating and good wine- he loved women. – Ernest Maltravers, Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Why aren't you eating your supper, Missy? – Missy by Dana Gatlin

Miss Laura never allowed any one to meddle with us when we were eating. – Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders

Well, it's only that she told me that Miss Dunton wasn't used to eating at the same table with servants; and when one of the boys told your father, he was mad, and came to me, and said, 'Huldah, you must eat when the rest do. – Duffels by Edward Eggleston

I kept on eating, to give myself an excuse for silence. – Four-Day Planet by Henry Beam Piper

After eating, the great spirit- chief got ready to go home. – The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry R. Schoolcraft

I discovered her, by her kitchen tent, hard at work eating her own breakfast. – The Associate Hermits by Frank R. Stockton