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Insufficiency :: Insufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc..

Victuals :: Victuals (n. pl.) Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands..

Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (n.) Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.

Bouge :: Bouge (n.) Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions..

Provision :: Provision (n.) Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural..

Forecast :: Forecast (n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation..

Purvey :: Purvey (v. t.) To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like..

Victual :: Victual (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..

Homesteader :: Homesteader (n.) One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner..

Purvey :: Purvey (v. i.) To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.

Cater :: Cater (n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions..

Board :: Board (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board..

Scandium :: Scandium (n.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44..

Harness Cask :: Harness cask () A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; -- called also harness tub.

Battler :: Battler (n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge..

Subsistence :: Subsistence (n.) That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence..

Feast :: Feast (n.) To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short..

Purveyance :: Purveyance (n.) That which is provided; provisions; food.

Garland :: Garland (n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.

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