Definition of food

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Food (n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment..

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Disagree :: Disagree (v. i.) To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste..
Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
Loach :: Loach (n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish..
Luxury :: Luxury (n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes..
Cate :: Cate (n.) Food. [Obs.] See Cates.
Fast :: Fast (v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence..
Alimentally :: Alimentally (adv.) So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality.
Grunt :: Grunt (n.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken..
Nidor :: Nidor (n.) Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking..
Pap :: Pap (n.) A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water..
Distaste :: Distaste (n.) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish..
Grain :: Grain (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used collectively..
Badgering :: Badgering (n.) The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
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..
Boarfish :: Boarfish (n.) An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish..
Flavor :: Flavor (n.) That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink..
Aphrodisiac :: Aphrodisiac (n.) That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery..
Palatable :: Palatable (a.) Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice..
Larder :: Larder (n.) A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked.
Salmon :: Salmon (v.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat..
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