VICTUALS

comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals

(noun) any substance that can be used as food

nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals

(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body

commissariat, provisions, provender, viands, victuals

(noun) a stock or supply of foods

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

victuals

plural of victual

Verb

victuals

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of victual

Source: Wiktionary

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Vict"uals, n. pl. Etym: [OE. vitaille, OF. vitaille, F. victuaille, pl. victuailles, fr. L. victualia, pl. of. victualis belonging to living or nourishment, fr. victus nourishment, from vivere, victum, to live; akin to vivus living. See Vivid.]

Definition: Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands. Then had we plenty of victuals. Jer. xliv. 17.

VICTUAL

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.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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