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foodful Chiefly poet.|ˈfuːdfʊl|
[f. food n. + -ful.]
Abounding with or supplying food. Also, rich in nutriment, nutritious.
1638G. Sandys Paraphr. Job. 55 When I made The food⁓full Earth. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 204 From furrow'd Fields to reap the foodful Store. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 248 The bleating Innocent, that claims in vain..The foodful Teat. 1808J. Barlow Columb. i. 796 The sturdy fig..And foodful cocoa fan the sultry plain. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 246 No more friskings o'er the foodful glebe.
fig.1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. 1842 I. 522 The democratick commonwealth is the foodful nurse of ambition. |