Thesaurus: victual

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1. n. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
2. n. Grain of any kind.
3. v. t. To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.
4. n. any substance that can be used as food
5. v. supply with food
6. v. lay in provisions
7. v. take in nourishment
8. 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. 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.
9. To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide withfood; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual aship.I must go victual Orleans forthwith. Shak.
10. v. supply with food v. lay in provisions v. take in nourishment