VICTUAL
Vict"ual, n.
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.
VICTUAL Vict"ual, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualed or Victualled; p. pr. & vb. n. Victualing or Victualling.]
Defn: 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.
VICTUALAGE
Vict"ual*age (; 48), n.
Defn: Victuals; food. [R.] "With my cargo of victualage." C. Bronté.
VICTUALER
Vict"ual*er, n. Etym: [F. victuailleur.] [Written also victualler.]
1. One who furnishes victuals.
2. One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper. Shak.