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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..

Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.

Birdseed :: Birdseed (n.) Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds..

Livery :: Livery (n.) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery..

Phytivorous :: Phytivorous (a.) Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals..

Cibation :: Cibation (n.) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.

Overfeeding :: Overfeeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfee.

Feeding :: Feeding (n.) That which is eaten; food.

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc..

Cocoonery :: Cocoonery (n.) A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons..

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.

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian..

Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects..

Pumpkin :: Pumpkin (n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion..

Dentirostral :: Dentirostral (a.) Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak..

Galactophagous :: Galactophagous (a.) Feeding on milk.

Pabulation :: Pabulation (n.) The act of feeding, or providing food..

Agistment :: Agistment (n.) The price paid for such feeding.

Forage :: Forage (v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil..

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