Definition of feeding

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Feeding (n.) the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening..

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Granivorous :: Granivorous (a.) Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds..
Vermivorous :: Vermivorous (a.) Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds..
Sweal :: Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame..
Cepevorous :: Cepevorous (a.) Feeding upon onions.
Feeding :: Feeding (n.) That which is eaten; food.
Polyp :: Polyp (n.) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
Hippophagous :: Hippophagous (a.) Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars..
Expend :: Expend (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations..
Man-eater :: Man-eater (n.) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh..
Graminivorous :: Graminivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals..
Agist :: Agist (v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same..
Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga..
Batten :: Batten (v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
Zoophagous :: Zoophagous (a.) Feeding on animals.
Pannage :: Pannage (n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
Feeding :: Feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fee.
Sparrow :: Sparrow (n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House..
Rhizophagous :: Rhizophagous (a.) Feeding on roots; root-eating.
Hippophagy :: Hippophagy (n.) The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh.
Cibation :: Cibation (n.) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.
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