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.
Victual
(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. Victualage
(Vict"ual*age) n. Victuals; food. [R.] "With my cargo of victualage." C. Bronté.
Victualer
(Vict"ual*er) n. [F. victuailleur.] [Written also victualler.]
1. One who furnishes victuals.
2. One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper. Shak.
3. A vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision use; a provision
ship.
4. One who deals in grain; a corn factor. [Scot.]
Licensed victualer. See under Licensed.
Victualing
(Vict"ual*ing), a. Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing
ship.
Victuals
(Vict"uals) n. pl. [OE. vitaille, OF. vitaille, F. victuaille, pl. victuailles, fr. L. victualia, pl. of.
victualis belonging to living or nourishment, fr. victus nourishment, from vivere, victum, to live; akin to
vivus living. See Vivid.] Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that
which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.
Then had we plenty of victuals.
Jer. xliv. 17. Victus
(||Vic"tus) n. [L.] (Zoöl.) Food; diet.
Vicuña
(||Vi*cu"ña, ||Vi*cu"gna) n. [Sp. vicuña. Cf. Vigonia.] (Zoöl.) A South American mammal (Auchenia
vicunna) native of the elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a thick coat
of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its
wool and flesh.
Vida finch
(Vid"a finch`) (Zoöl.) The whidah bird.
Vidame
(||Vi*dame") n. [F., fr. LL. vice- dominus, fr. L. vice instead of + dominus master, lord.] (Fr.
Feud. Law) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected
their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.
Vide
(||Vi"de) imperative sing. of L. videre, to see; — used to direct attention to something; as, vide
supra, see above.
