Definition of feeding

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Feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fee.

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Soil :: Soil (v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse..
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) The price paid for such feeding.
Saprophagous :: Saprophagous (a.) Feeding on carrion.
Pannage :: Pannage (n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
Procris :: Procris (n.) Any species of small moths of the genus Procris. The larvae of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves.
Beet :: Beet (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar..
Carnivorous :: Carnivorous (a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics..
Webform :: Webform (n.) Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvae eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding..
Cibation :: Cibation (n.) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.
Carrion :: Carrion (a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests..
Phytophagous :: Phytophagous (a.) Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal..
Superaltar :: Superalimentation (n.) The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it..
Granivorous :: Granivorous (a.) Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds..
Coprophagous :: Coprophagous (a.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects..
Overfeeding :: Overfeeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfee.
Feed :: Feed (n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
Hippophagous :: Hippophagous (a.) Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars..
Anthropophagous :: Anthropophagous (a.) Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.
Cepevorous :: Cepevorous (a.) Feeding upon onions.
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