Definition of food

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Food (n.) Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes..

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Natchnee :: Natchnee (n.) An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant..
Season :: Season (v. t.) To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food..
Diet :: Diet (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
Cram :: Cram (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Indigestion :: Indigestion (n.) Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.
Margate Fish :: Margate fish () A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt..
Sadr :: Sadr (n.) A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Z. lotus); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See Lotus (b)..
Dish :: Dish (n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. A dish fit for the gods..
Peptone :: Peptone (n.) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.
Store :: Store (v. t.) Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family..
Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat..
Scooper :: Scooper (n.) The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.
Raven :: Raven (n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Redundant :: Redundant (a.) Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food..
Conch :: Conch (n.) One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food..
Pea :: Pea (n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod..
Windowpane :: Windowpane (n.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder..
Spoonwood :: Spoon-meat (n.) Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food..
Nourishment :: Nourishment (n.) That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food.
Peptonize :: Peptonize (v. t.) To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food..
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