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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..

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..

Anthropophagous :: Anthropophagous (a.) Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

Hippophagy :: Hippophagy (n.) The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh.

Superaltar :: Superalimentation (n.) The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it..

Hippophagous :: Hippophagous (a.) Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars..

Feeding :: Feeding (n.) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land..

Granivorous :: Granivorous (a.) Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds..

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..

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..

Bogsucker :: Bogsucker (n.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

Vermivorous :: Vermivorous (a.) Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds..

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish..

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..

Depascent :: Depascent (a.) Feeding.

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

Ossivorous :: Ossivorous (a.) Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds..

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

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

Zoophagous :: Zoophagous (a.) Feeding on animals.

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