transitive. To take into the mouth piecemeal, and masticate and swallow as food; to consume as food. Usually of solids only.

transitive. To gnaw, devour, consume.

transitive. To devour, to eat.

transitive. To eat (something). Obsolete.

To take into the mouth and eat; figurative to consider, ‘inwardly digest’. Also, to consume, waste away (obsolete).

To put (food) into the gorge; to devour greedily. Also transferred and figurative to swallow up (as a vortex).

To exercise the teeth upon; to bite, gnaw. Also absol.

‘To discuss’ (a dish). Obsolete.

transitive. colloquial. To take, have, eat (one's breakfast, dinner, etc.).

Const. †on, upon (a kind of food). Cf. to dine on, feed on; also 1e. Also const. from, off, †in (gold, china, etc.).

transitive or intransitive. To eat.

transitive.

To ‘dispose of’ or ‘make away with’ (food, a meal) promptly or quickly; to eat up, consume, devour. colloquial.

Of cattle: To eat, eat off, feed upon. Also, to feed down, off.

transitive. To eat, esp. with relish.

To clear off (a crop) by feeding it to cattle: said also of the cattle. Also intransitive (for passive) of a crop.

transitive. To take another share of. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. Esp. in Australian Aboriginal usage: to eat.

To eat.

transitive. To eat up, consume, as a delicacy.

to stow away. transitive. To remove and store until required; to put (a thing) away in a secret or not readily accessible place, or where it will…

to get outside ——: (a) slang to eat or drink —— (also to put oneself outside ——); (b) U.S. to master, to understand.

to get outside ——: (a) slang to eat or drink —— (also to put oneself outside ——); (b) U.S. to master, to understand.

to feed down: to eat off the food of.