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Victual \Vict"ual\ (v[i^]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]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

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. [1913 Webster]

I must go victual Orleans forthwith. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

victual

noun

any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victuals]

verb

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]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Victual \Vict"ual\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualedor 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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