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Endowment :: Endowment (n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support..

Victualer :: Victualer (n.) A vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision use; a provision ship..

Some :: Some (a.) A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions..

Comparation :: Comparation (n.) A making ready; provision.

Executor :: Executor (n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease..

Provision :: Provision (n.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation..

Sutural :: Suttle (v. i.) To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.

Insufficiency :: Insufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc..

Provisionally :: Provisionally (adv.) By way of provision for the time being; temporarily.

Forecast :: Forecast (n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation..

Provisor :: Provisor (n.) One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5..

Garland :: Garland (n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.

Buttery :: Buttery (n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept..

Grist :: Grist (n.) Supply; provision.

Metonymy :: Metonymy (n.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections..

Victualing :: Victualing (a.) Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship..

Purveyor :: Purveyor (n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer..

By-law :: By-law (n.) A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside..

Bumboat :: Bumboat (n.) A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment..

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