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Food

n.
  1. What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
  2. Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
    3. Food vacuole (Zoöl.),
    one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion.
    Food yolk . (Biol.)
    See under Yolk.

v. t.
  1. To supply with food.