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  1. 1. n. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Grain of any kind. Source: opted
  3. 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. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. any substance that can be used as food Source: wordnet
  5. 5. v. supply with food Source: wordnet
  6. 6. v. lay in provisions Source: wordnet
  7. 7. v. take in nourishment Source: wordnet
  8. 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. Source: webster
  9. 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. Source: adambom
  10. 10. v. supply with food v. lay in provisions v. take in nourishment Source: ecdict

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