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give nourishment to

a source of materials to nourish the body

give nourishment to

a source of materials to nourish the body

An allowance for maintenance.

To nourish; to support.

To provide for the maintenance of.

An allowance for maintenance.

To nourish; to support.

To provide for the maintenance of.

Nourishing food; nutriment.

Nourishment: food.

Alimental and alimentary.

Food; sustenance.

Food; sustenance.

Food; nutriment; sustenance.

Any substance which, if introduced into the system, is capable of nourishing it and repairing its losses. The study of aliments forms one of the most important branches of hygiene. They are confined to the organized kingdom,-the mineral affording none. Dr. Prout has four great classes-the aqueous, saccharine, olcaginous, and albuminous :-Dr. Pereira, twelve-the aqueous, mucilaginous or gummy, saccharine, amylaceous, ligneous, pectinaceous, acidulous, alcoholic, oily or fatty, proteinaceous, gelatinous, and saline. Liebig divides them into two classes :-the NITROGENIZED or PLASTIC ELEMENTS OF NUTRITION, in which he comprises vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumen, vegetable casein, flesh and blood; and the NON-NITROGENIZED ELEMENTS OF RESPIRATION, in which he comprises fat, starch, gum, cane sugar, grape sugar, sugar of milk, pectin, bassorin, wine, beer and spirits. The former alone, in his view, are inservient to the nutrition of organized tissue: the latter are burnt in respiration, and furnish heat. The second division might be still farther simplified, inasmuch as amylaceous aliments are convertible into sugar during the digestive process; and, from both, oleaginous matter may be formed.

Food; nutritive material.

Any substance capable of nourishing or repairing the waste of the body. Food. [Lat.]

n. [Latin] That which feeds or supports.

Nourishment, nutriment, food.