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  • English Word Feed Definition To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
  • English Word Feed Definition To take food; to eat.
  • English Word Feed Definition To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
  • English Word Feed Definition To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
  • English Word Feed Definition To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
  • English Word Feed Definition That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
  • English Word Feed Definition A grazing or pasture ground.
  • English Word Feed Definition An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
  • English Word Feed Definition A meal, or the act of eating.
  • English Word Feed Definition The water supplied to steam boilers.
  • English Word Feed Definition The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
  • English Word Feed Definition The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
  • English Word Feed Definition The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
  • English Word Feeder Definition One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
  • English Word Feeder Definition One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
  • English Word Feeder Definition One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
  • English Word Feeder Definition One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
  • English Word Feeder Definition A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.
  • English Word Feeder Definition A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
  • English Word Feeder Definition A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
  • English Word Feeder Definition A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
  • English Word Feeder Definition An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
  • English Word Feeder Definition A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
  • English Word Feeding Definition of Feed
  • English Word Feeding Definition the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
  • English Word Feeding Definition That which is eaten; food.
  • English Word Feeding Definition That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.
  • English Word Feeing Definition of Fee
  • English Word Feejee Definition See Fijian.
  • English Word Feel Definition To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.