feedingn.
/ˈfiːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfidɪŋ/ 1. The action of feed v., in its various senses.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding
feedingc897
foodinga1425
refeeding1834
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > [noun]
meatshiplOE
eatingc1175
dietingc1400
foodc1450
feedingc1475
manducationa1513
bit1523
comestion1595
repast1598
victitation1598
trencheringa1612
cibation1651
oneration1651
esure1657
grubbing1819
noshinga1941
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres
ball1483
through-pass1673
intercept1821
fielding1823
outfielding1851
wrist stroke1851
goalkeeping1856
shot1868
scrimmage1872
passing1882
save1883
touchback1884
angle shot1885
shooting1885
pass1887
line1891
tackling1893
feeding1897
centre1898
chip shot1899
glovework1906
back-lift1912
push pass1919
aerial1921
screen1921
ball-hawking1925
fast break1929
tackle1930
chip1939
screenshot1940
snapshot1961
hang time1969
one-two1969
blooter1976
passback1976
sidefoot1979
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > other types of acting
puppetry1613
gagging1817
ponging1854
fogging1889
voice acting1928
feeding1929
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care v. 42 Sio feding ðara sceapa.
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 39 Þe fyrst ys a bodly fedyng.
14.. Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. 120 Thys day is named Phagyphanye..For thys word phagy..Is seyd of fedyng.
c1475 Babees Bk. (Harl. 5086) (2002) i. 7 In youre fedynge luke goodly yee be sene.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBii Pamperyng..our bodyes by..moche fedyng of delicate meates & drynkes.
1676 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 122 Skill in the feeding..of singing-birds.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 285 According to its feeding on venemous or not venemous food, 'tis wholesome or poysonous.
1803 H. Davy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 272 The feeding of leather in the slow method of tanning.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) viii. 75 There was not a gleam of..anything but feeding in his whole visage.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such i. 15 A feeding-up into monstrosity.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 404/2 Many aver that..Alan Rotherham was the first to reduce the art of feeding to a science.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. i. 253 This feeding I'm talking about..is a name in the profession for working up to gags.
2. † b. to take feeding (of): to feed (upon). In quot. c1500 figurative.† c. Nourishment, sustenance. Obsolete.
a. concrete. That which is eaten; food. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]
meateOE
eatOE
foodOE
fodderOE
dietc1230
gista1290
victual1303
victualsa1375
preya1382
feedinga1398
pasturea1398
viancea1400
viandsc1400
livingc1405
meatingc1425
vitalyc1440
vianda1450
cates1461
vivers1536
viandry1542
viander1543
gut-matter1549
peck1567
belly-cheer1579
appast1580
manchet1583
chat1584
belly-metal1590
repasture1598
cibaries1599
belly-timber1607
belly-cheat1608
peckage1610
victuallage1622
keeping1644
vivresa1650
crib1652
prog1655
grub1659
beef1661
fooding1663
teething1673
eatablea1687
sunket1686
yam1788
chow-chow1795
keep1801
feed1818
grubbing1819
patter1824
ninyam1826
nyam1828
grubbery1831
tack1834
kai1845
mungaree1846
scoff1846
foodstuff1847
chuck1850
muckamuck1852
tuck1857
tucker1858
hash1865
nosh1873
jock1879
cake flour1881
chow1886
nosebag1888
stodge1890
food aid1900
tackle1900
munga1907
scarf1932
grubber1959
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. i. 1094 Some bestes hunteþ oþre bestes... And somme gadereþ stoor of mete and feedynge.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 152/2 Fedynge, or fode, pastum.
1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 3 Beoffe, mutton, porke, and veale..is the common feedyng of..poore persons.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 147 Will ye let the fry encrease, where the feeding failes?
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 148 His [the Pike's] feeding is usually fish or frogs. View more context for this quotation
1866 Handy Horse Bk. 20 So should the horses feeding be augmented by one-third..more than usual.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at
bestarec1220
bigapea1250
to gape atc1290
fix14..
to stick one's eyes in (also into)c1485
attacha1500
porec1500
to take feeding (of)c1500
stare1510
(to have) in gaze1577
gaze1591
outstare1596
over-stare1600
devour1628
trysta1694
ogle1795
begaze1802
toise1888
fixate1889
rubberneck1897
eyeball1901
c1500 Melusine (1895) 298 Her of whom myn eyen toke theire fedyng.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun]
nourishmentc1330
nurshinga1382
nurshmenta1382
sustenance1389
nutrition?a1425
nutrure?c1450
sustentation1452
nutrifaction?1503
education1533
feeding1547
nourishing1560
nutriture1568
cherishment1593
subsistence1615
nutrication1623
alimentation1626
keeping1644
alition1650
alumnation1658
focillation1658
aliture1721
altion1721
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. Proheme f. iiii Consyder yf..the sicnes in the exteriall partes haue any fedyng from the interyall partes.
3. Grazing-ground or pasture land; pasturage, feeding-ground. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture
leasowc950
leasea1000
pasturea1300
common pasturea1325
grassland1324
laund1340
lea1357
gang1413
feedingc1430
grassa1500
raika1500
beast-gate1507
pasturagec1515
grazing1517
average1537
pasture groundc1537
walk1549
grassing1557
pastural1575
browsing1577
feed1580
pastureland1591
meadow pasture1614
green side1616
range1626
pastorage1628
tore1707
graziery1731
pasturing1759
permanent pasture1771
sweet-veld1785
walk land1797
run1804
sweet-grass1812
potrero1822
pasturage land1855
turn-out1895
lawn1899
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cix. 116 He..ouer~throweth here feedinges [Fr. pasturaux].
1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 47 Alle the landys, medewes, pasturys, and fedyngys callyd Southwode.
1554–5 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 3 Lands or feedings, apt for milch kine.
1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged iii. §4 Kent..in some things hath the best esteeme: as in..feedings for Cattell.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 31 The Spring and Autumn feeding, whereon six or eight Cattle usually grazed.
1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) i. 40 Sheep..have fine feeding.
a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 16 You turned your horse into my feeding.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Simple attributive.
feeding-barley n.
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1884 York Herald 19 Aug. 7/2 Feeding foreign barley.
feeding-cake n.
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1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 511/1 Feeding cakes, pulse, and other..feeding stuffs.
feeding-cock n.
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1827 J. Farey Treat. Steam Engine 369 Regulate the feeding cocks..so as to give the requisite supply.
feeding-ground n.
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1647 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. V. 223/1 Wee have granted to him 200 acres of feeding grounde.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. xiv. 263 It is all good feeding-ground.
1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 161 The ducks will be seen..coming to the feeding-grounds.
feeding-habit n.
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the world > animals > by eating habits > eating habits > [noun]
feeding-habit1933
1933 Brit. Birds 27 4 Until something exact is known of its distribution and numbers no correct interpretation of its feeding-habits can be made.
1959 E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles I. 55 The effect of feeding-habits—environment and type of food—on larvae.
feeding-hole n.
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1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. 71 In this country the feeding hole of the furnace is generally closed.
1901 Feilden's Mag. 4 436/2 With a steeper inclination..to a ‘feeding-hole’ for the admission of refuse from the platform above.
feeding-house n.
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1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon iii. 87 A gentleman..is judiciously distributing his feeding-houses..over all the highest parts of his farms.
1873 W. B. Tegetmeier Poultry Bk. xxix. 370 Supply a bed of clean straw in the feeding-house.
feeding-land n.
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1669 Watertown (Mass.) Rec. 99 If any such sheep be taken vpon comon feeding land.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Feeding land, grazing land.
feeding-linseed n.
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1887 Daily News 28 June 2/5 Not much business passing in feeding linseed.
feeding-machine n.
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1873 J. Richards On Arrangem. Wood-working Factories 142 Hand-feeding machines.
feeding-metal n.
feeding-pipe n.
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1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 52 Just behind the Share and Feeding-pipe.
feeding-place n.
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1611 Bible (King James) Nahum ii. 11 Where is..the feeding place of the yong Lions? View more context for this quotation
1907 N. Amer. Rev. CLXXXVI. 18 Another cheap feeding-place—the ‘Miners' Restaurant’.
feeding-room n.
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1910 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 614/1 I was wet, miserable, and tired, so I passed into the common feeding-room.
feeding-stuff n.
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1883Feeding-stuffs [see feeding-cake n.].
feeding-trough n.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > trough
feeding-trough1825
feed-trough1845
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 403 The flax is fed or supplied in handsfull on the feeding-trough.
1867 ‘T. Lackland’ Homespun ii. 170 It will pay you well to feed your beast..in the feeding-trough under the shed.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 227 Corrals and feeding-troughs.
feeding-vessel n.
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1859 Luard in Archaeologia Cantiana 2 8 Feeding-vessels for the chickens.
feeding-work n.
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1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist xvii. 60 This necessary feeding-work of a good Shepherd.
C2. † feeding-stead n. Obsolete a pasture.
feeding bag n. a nose-bag for a horse (cf. feed-bag n. at feed n. Compounds 1a(a)).
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1812 Niles' Weekly Reg. 2 131/1 The purveyor of public supplies advertises for..3000 nose or feeding bags.
feeding board n. = feed-board n. at feed n. Compounds 2.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > feed-board
feeding board1892
feed-board1899
1892 J. Southward Princ. & Progress Printing Machinery v. 29 The feeding board, at first, consisted of merely a board like a desk, attached to the upper part of the machine.
1919 C. T. Jacobi Printing xxix. 301 To perform this correctly the second side in printing should be laid to the reverse end of the feeding-board.
1951 S. Jennett Making of Bks. (1964) vii. 99 At the front of the machine is the feeding board, a large wooden surface sloping gently down towards the base of the cylinder.
feeding-bottle n. a glass bottle for supplying artificial food to infants; also attributive in figurative sense.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > infant's bottle
sucking-pot1552
sucking-bottle1632
suck-bottle1652
titty bottle1844
bottle1848
feeding-bottle1858
nurser1882
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 149/2 Feeding-bottle.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 2 Feb. 3/1 Napoleon foresaw the results of this feeding-bottle policy.
1887 Hackney Gaz. 9 Feb. 2/7 Fitting up infant's feeding-bottles.
feeding-box n. (a) a compartment in which a horse is placed to be fed; (b) in hot air feeding-box, an appliance for ‘feeding’ hot air to a stove.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stall
horse-bay1582
trevis1756
box1798
trevis board1833
headpost1844
horse-box1846
stallage1861
feeding-box1883
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 511/1 When the manure is made in feeding-boxes.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 65/1 Grates..with..hot air feeding box.
feeding-cloth n. = feed-cloth n. at feed n. Compounds 2.
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1821 Barker & Harris Specif. Patent 4574 4 The material [fur] to be cleared being taken off the feeding cloth or endless web.
feeding-cup n. (see quot.).
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > for invalids
feeding-cup1882
sippy cup1986
1882 J. W. Anderson Med. Nursing (1883) iv. 73 See that the feeding cup and all vessels used for food are kept clean.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Feeding-cup, a vessel with a spout for the feeding of a sick person whilst lying down. Also, an oblong shallow vessel with a tubular end, to which a teat can be affixed for the artificial feeding of young children.
feeding-drum n. a drum used for feeding certain kinds of furnaces.
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1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 151 As each scraper comes in turn under the feeding-drum, the coal which has fallen between each of them will be carried forward.
feeding-engine n. (see quots.).
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 830/1 Feeding engine, a supplementary engine for feeding the boiler, when the main engine is stopped.
feeding-head n.
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 830/1 Feeding-head (Founding), an opening in a mould..which supplies metal as the casting contracts.
feeding-needle n.
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1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 289 A feeding-needle [in the tambouring machine] which by a circular motion round the working-needle lodged upon the stem of the latter the loop of the thread.
feeding-piece n. grazing ground.
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1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 436 Feeding piece, grazing ground.
feeding-rod n. a small metal rod used for keeping an open passage in a casting during the process of feeding.
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1892 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. (ed. 2) 136 Feeding-rod.
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14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 600 Pascua, a ffedyngstede.
feeding-time n. (a) a time for taking food; meal-time; (b) dialect genial or growing weather (for crops); (c) the time at which animals in captivity are fed (recent examples of sense feeding-box n. (a) usually have jocular allusion to ).
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun]
mealtideOE
mealtimelOE
meatsele?a1400
meat-timec1400
meat-while1435
meltitha1538
feeding-time1832
trencher-time1846
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding-time
shack-time1573
feeding-time1832
1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 7 Apr. 77/2 He had some reason to believe the Lion of the North..was best worth seeing at feeding time.
1844 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical v. 27 A howl as wild and remorseless as that from a kennel of hounds at feeding time.
1844 Lady Stanley Let. 8 Dec. in N. Mitford Ladies of Alderley (1938) 105 It is the very large family altogether & especially feeding time that is oppressive.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire ‘It's a rare feedin' time for th' turmits.’
1888 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 11/1 A bell rang. There's feeding-time, we'd best go down.
1961 A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo i. 10 I had become quite deaf to the customary loud orchestra of a whole Zoo... I registered the feeding times only subliminally.
feeding-trace n. a track showing where animals have obtained food.
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the world > animals > animals hunted > trail > [noun] > showing where animal obtained food
feeding-trace1856
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. iii. 38 The numerous feeding-traces [of rabbits] among the rocks.
feeding-tube n. (see quot.).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > tube or cannula > other tubes
pipeeOE
pipe?a1425
nose tube1857
feeding-tube1884
tracheotomy tube1897
tracheostomy tube1961
stent1964
grummet1966
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Feeding tube, an elastic tube..which is passed into the stomach.
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feeding station n. (a) a place where food is provided for animals, esp. livestock or (in later use) wild birds; (b) a centre or facility where food is provided for people affected by famine, war, etc.; (c) a temporary stopping place where participants in a race can take refreshment (cf. station n. 21b).
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > place where animals fed
feeding station1844
feed-floor1868
feed-lot1889
lick-hole1928
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 137 A shoot..that will receive the broken [oil-]cake..and deliver it..into a basket..in which it can be removed to the feeding stations [for cattle and sheep].
1848 J. H. Tuke Visit to Connaught (ed. 2) Postscr. 65 A feeding station..where the..relieving officers were vainly endeavouring to relieve the pressing necessities of these miserable people.
1874 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 23 May The feeding stations..where the stock can be removed from the cars and fed and watered.
1892 Cycling 13 Aug. 54/2 The others continued with Bennett leading, and Keeling close upon him. In fact, as Bennett left his feeding stations, Keeling arrived.
1922 Bird-lore 24 190 Here, near a cherry tree, we placed a large protected feeding-station. This has been frequented by various kinds of birds.
1997 Chicago Tribune 6 Apr. i. 9/2 (caption) A young Rwandan refugee goes after the last crumbs..at a United Nations feeding station.
2002 P. Long Guide to Rural Wales vii. 214/2 Other red kite feeding stations in Wales are at Gigrin Farm near Rhayader, Powys, and Tregaron in Ceredigion.
2011 K. Boyd in M. Hutson & C. Speed Sports Injuries iv. vi. 466/2 Swimmers may sustain traumatic injuries.., particularly at crowded starts or feeding stations.
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feedingadj.
/ˈfiːdɪŋ/ That feeds.† 1. That nourishes; nutritious. Obsolete exc. dialect.† 3. That eats away; corrosive. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > nourishing
nourishing1340
marrowya1382
nutrimentala1398
feeding1398
marroweda1400
nourishanta1400
nurshing?c1425
nutritivec1450
nutrativec1487
nourishable1496
hearty?1550
battling1555
nurturable1579
alimental1586
nutrible1607
alimentary1608
nutrimentive1610
refective1611
battlesome1627
alible1653
nurturing?a1659
alimentous1659
alimonious1659
polytrophic1659
nutrient1661
nutritious1665
alimentarious1671
foodful1735
nutritionarya1852
nutritional1858
nutraceutical1990
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. ix. 37 This one mete..very fedynge is founden.
1651 in S. Hartlib Legacie 115 It [sc. Lucern] is much more feeding than any other Hay.
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 136 A fat, rich, deep, moist, and feeding soil.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 422 The feedingest ground makes the toughest timber.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness (at cited word) ‘Whotmeeal's a varry feedin thing.’
2.
a. That is taking food; of an animal: Grazing.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > [adjective]
feeding1824
the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective]
pascent1763
feedinga1861
1824 H. Davy Diary July (1836) v. 213 The Danes and Holsteiners appear to be rather fat headed, and a feeding and smoking people.
a1861 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 291 Doth he sometimes in his slumbering see The feeding kine.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 275 A feeding flock.
1888 Daily News 7 Sept. 5/2 Feeding trout generally keep within casting distance from the shore.
b. transferred. Of a gale or storm: That increases gradually in violence, or in its effects. Sometimes hyphenated. Also figurative.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increasing progressively
feeding1641
rolling1719
snowballing1861
spiralling1944
escalatory1965
1641 R. Baillie Let. 7 May (1841) I. 352 This is a feeding storme.
1819 Caledonian Mercury 30 Dec. (Jam.) We had a pretty copious fall of snow. At one time everything seemed to portend what is called a feeding-storm.
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 6 Jan. (1939) 64 This seems to be a feeding storm, coming on by little and little.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Feeding-storm, a continuance or succession of snow, daily feeding or adding to what is already on the ground.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 291 Feeding-gale.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess > ulcer > qualities of
virulentc1400
wrootingc1400
fraudulent?1541
serpent?1541
walkripe1585
lachrymous1617
phagedaenical1635
phagedaenic1656
phagedaenous1659
cacoethic1684
feeding1750
indolent1826
resolutive1837
nomadic1842
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > eroded or eaten away > that eats away
fretting1393
gnawing1567
eatingc1602
eroding1612
depascent1651
feeding1750
erosive1830
1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 221 It cures feeding and malignant Ulcers.
4. That keeps up the supply (of a river, machine, etc.).
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the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > continuously
feeding1833
1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. 106 The feeding snows are more abundantly dissolved.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 154 Cardings introduced in pairs at the feeding rollers.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 291 Feeding-part of a tackle, that running through the sheaves, in opposition to the standing part.
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