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victuals
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stock or supply of foods [syn: commissariat , provisions , provender , viands ] a source of materials to nourish the body [syn: nutriment , nourishment , nutrition , sustenance , aliment , alimentation ] any substance that can be used as food [syn: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, vitaylle (singular), from Anglo-French and Old French vitaille "food, nourishment, provisions," from Late Latin victualia "provisions," noun use of plural of victualis "of nourishment," from victus "livelihood, food, sustenance, that which sustains ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic plurale tantum English) food supply; provisions. 2 (plural of victual English)Category:English plurals vb. (en-third-person singular of: victual )
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bjortson's instability had proved too extreme, so the group was informed before Servitors distributed their victuals . ▪ Good victuals and ale to any man but a slave master. ▪ He looks at its age-old mysteries and traditions ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Victuals \Vict"uals\, n. pl. [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 .] Food ...
Usage examples of victuals.
Thus if you please to consider this account, and the unnecessary wages to Captaine Newport, or his ships so long lingering and staying here (for notwithstanding his boasting to leave us victuals for 12 months, though we had 89 by this discovery lame and sicke, and but a pinte of corne a day for a man, we were constrained to give him three hogsheads of that to victuall him homeward), or yet to send into Germany or Poleland for glassemen and the rest, till we be able to sustaine ourselves, and releeve them when they come.
At Arahatic they found the King had provided victuals for them, but, says Newport, "the King told us that he was very sick and not able to sit up long with us.
Percy says they were very bare and scant of victuals, and in wars and dangers with the savages.
From your ship we had not provision in victuals worth twenty pound, and we are more than two hundred to live upon this, the one halfe sicke, the other little better.
Yet this had been the diet of the soldiers, who had consumed the victuals and accomplished nothing except to let the savages have the most of the tools and a good part of the arms.
The President, pitying the wretched savage in the dungeon, sent him some victuals and charcoal for a fire.
All the victuals and munitions having been put ashore, the old factious projects were revived.
Savage was loath to return alone, and Spelman was appointed to go with him, which he did willingly, as victuals were scarce in camp.
At the end of this bout they surrendered her again to her crew, with victuals but no weapons.
I ordered victuals to be given them, and the poor creatures rather devoured than ate it: they were so exceedingly hungry that they were in a manner ravenous, and had no command of themselves.
About four or five days after, they came again for some victuals, and gave the governor an account where they had pitched their tents, and marked themselves out a habitation and plantation.
I am bound to the East Indies in a ship freighted by merchants, and to whom it would be an insufferable piece of injustice to detain their ship here, the men lying all this while at victuals and wages on the owners' account.
These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep.
He ordered his cooks and butlers, who were already prepared, to give me victuals and drink, which they pushed forward in a sort of vehicles upon wheels, till I could reach them.
They would sometimes alight upon my victuals, and leave their loathsome excrement, or spawn behind, which to me was very visible, though not to the natives of that country, whose large optics were not so acute as mine, in viewing smaller objects.