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Definition: of Fee

Feed

Definition: To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy
the physical huger of.

Feed

Definition: To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent,
taste, or desire.

Feed

Definition: To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or
wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a
furnace with coal.

Feed

Definition: To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen,
develop, and guard.

Feed

Definition: To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by
cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.

Feed

Definition: To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for
consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a
steam boiler.

Feed

Definition: To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine;
as, to feed paper to a printing press.

Feed

Definition: To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood
and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool,
or the tool to the work).

Feed

Definition: To take food; to eat.

Feed

Definition: To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed
one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.

Feed

Definition: To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by
food.

Feed

Definition: To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.

Feed

Definition: That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture;
hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.

Feed

Definition: A grazing or pasture ground.

Feed

Definition: An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a
meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.

Feed

Definition: A meal, or the act of eating.

Feed

Definition: The water supplied to steam boilers.

Feed

Definition: The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be
operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of
producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a
machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in
the work.

Feed

Definition: The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam
boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.

Feed

Definition: The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a
feed motion.