Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
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
Webster 1828 Edition
Victual
VICTUAL.
[See Victuals.]Definition 2024
victual
victual
English
Alternative forms
- victuall (obsolete)
Noun
victual (plural victuals)
- Food fit for human consumption.
- Knolles
- He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual.
- Tennyson
- There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand / Bare victual for the movers.
- Knolles
- (archaic, in the plural) Food supplies; provisions.
- 1598?, Two Gentlemen of Verona,Act II, scene I line 181:
- though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals and would fain have meat.
- 1598?, Two Gentlemen of Verona,Act II, scene I line 181:
- (Scotland) grain of any kind
Translations
Food, provisions
|
|
Verb
victual (third-person singular simple present victuals, present participle victualing or victualling, simple past and past participle victualed or victualled)
- (transitive) To provide with food; to provision.
- (intransitive) To lay in food supplies.
- (intransitive) To eat.