'Victual' definitions:
Definition of 'victual'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals]
verb
Supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war"
verb
Lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage"
verb
Take in nourishment
Definition of 'Victual'
From: GCIDE
- Victual \Vict"ual\ (v[i^]t"'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualed (v[i^]t"'ld) or Victualled; p. pr. & vb. n. Victualing or Victualling.] To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship. [1913 Webster]
- I must go victual Orleans forthwith. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Victual'
From: GCIDE
- Victual \Vict"ual\ (v[i^]t"'l), n.
- 1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals. --2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
- There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the mowers. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Short allowance of victual. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]