victual
victual is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 3.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 (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- against
- aid
- arm
- back
- batman
- beat
- cater
- caterer
- commissariat
- commissary
- comprador
- day
- due
- economy
- ensilage
- fall
- feed
- feeder
- fill
- find
- food
- foot
- for
- forage
- furnish
- good
- grist
- grocer
- grocery
- hand
- have
- jackal
- keep
- lay
- make
- manciple
- merchant
- mill
- one
- pelican
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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