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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Agistment :: Agistment (n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests..
Pasturage :: Pasturage (n.) The business of feeding or grazing cattle.
Run :: Run (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run..
Taster :: Taster (n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora..
Hippophagous :: Hippophagous (a.) Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars..
Depascent :: Depascent (a.) Feeding.
Entomophagous :: Entomophagous (a.) Feeding on insects; insectivorous.
Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.
Feeding :: Feeding (n.) the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening..
Pannage :: Pannage (n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
Polyp :: Polyp (n.) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
Batrachophagous :: Batrachophagous (a.) Feeding on frogs.
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) The price paid for such feeding.
Weasiness :: Weasiness (n.) Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.
Campagnol :: Campagnol (n.) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds..
Flesh :: Flesh (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time..
Graminivorous :: Graminivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals..
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..
Equivorous :: Equivorous (a.) Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars..
Migrate :: Migrate (v. i.) To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds..
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