About The Word Victual
Learn about the word Victual to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Victual definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Victual
Victual Definition And Meaning |
---|
What's The Definition Of Victual?
[n] any substance that can be used as food
[v] partake of victuals; esp. of animals [v] feed; of domestic animals (rare usage) [v] lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage" [v] supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war" Synonyms | Synonyms for Victual: comestible | eatable | edible | pabulum | victuals Related Terms | Find terms related to Victual: See Also | eat | feed | food | furnish | hive away | lay in | nutrient | provide | put in | render | salt away | stack away | stash away | store | supply | tuck Victual In Webster's Dictionary \Vict"ual\, n.
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 victual for the movers. --Tennyson.
Short allowance of victual. --Longfellow.
2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
\Vict"ual\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Victualed}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 ship. I must go victual Orleans forthwith. --Shak. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Roll over ‐ make a rolling motion or turn; "The dog…
- Arbutus unedo ‐ small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet…
- Inflammatory bowel disease ‐ inflammation of…
- Holmes ‐ a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle [n] English…
- Roister ‐ engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making; "They were out carousing…
- Chicken broth ‐ a stock made…
- Pseudocolus ‐ a genus of fungi belonging to the family…
- Ulmus serotina ‐ autumn-flowering elm of southeastern…
- Nugatory ‐ of no real value; "a…
- Black cypress pine ‐ Australian tree with small flattened scales as leaves and numerous…