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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Crib :: Crib (n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
Feeding :: Feeding (n.) the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening..
Pabulation :: Pabulation (n.) The act of feeding, or providing food..
Graminivorous :: Graminivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals..
Sweal :: Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame..
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car..
Insectivorous :: Insectivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests..
Sarcophagous :: Sarcophagous (a.) Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating; carnivorous.
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.
Batten :: Batten (v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
Hack :: Hack (n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc..
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..
Rhizophagous :: Rhizophagous (a.) Feeding on roots; root-eating.
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..
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..
Aphidophagous :: Aphidophagous (a.) Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidae..
Superaltar :: Superalimentation (n.) The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it..
Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.
Carrion :: Carrion (a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
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