EATINGS
Noun
eatings
plural of eating
Anagrams
• ageinst, easting, gainest, genista, giantes, ingates, ingesta, seating, signate, tagines, tangies, teasing, tsigane
Source: Wiktionary
EATING
Eat"ing, n.
1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.
[Colloq.] Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to
be eaten on the premises.
EAT
Eat, v. t. [imp. Ate, Obsolescent & Colloq. Eat (; p. p. Eaten, Obs.
or Colloq. Eat (p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] Etym: [OE. eten, AS. etan;
akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel.
eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L.
edere, Gr. ad. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food
not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as oxen." Dan. iv. 25.
They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. Ps. cvi. 28.
The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. Gen. xli. 20.
The lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28.
With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat. Milton.
The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson.
His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.
2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer;
to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
To eat humble pie. See under Humble.
– To eat of (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not waste."
Keble.
– To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the
Citation under Blurt.) -- To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out
the heart and comfort of it." Tillotson.
– To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to
windward of her.
Syn.
– To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
Eat, v. i.
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction
from liquid, food; to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam. ix. 13.
2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
3. To make one's way slowly. To eat, To eat in or into, to make way
by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. "A sword laid by, which eats into
itself." Byron.
– To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled
with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition