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Victual
Vict′ual
(vĭt′’l)
, Noun.
1.
Food; – now used chiefly in the plural. See
Victuals
. 2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak.
He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of
victual
. Knolles.
There came a fair-hair’d youth, that in his hand
Bare
Bare
victual
for the mowers. Tennyson.
Short allowance of
victual
. Longfellow.
2.
Grain of any kind.
[Scot.]
Jamieson.
Vict′ual
(vĭt′’l)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Victualed
(vĭt′’ld)
or Victualled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Victualing
or Victualling
.] To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance;
as, to
. victual
an army; to victual
a shipI must go
victual
Orleans forthwith. Shakespeare