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(), 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.] 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. スポンサード リンク
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