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Zoophagous :: Zoophagous (a.) Feeding on animals.

Overfeeding :: Overfeeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfee.

Saprophagous :: Saprophagous (a.) Feeding on carrion.

Expend :: Expend (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations..

Forage :: Forage (v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil..

Beet :: Beet (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar..

Rhizophagous :: Rhizophagous (a.) Feeding on roots; root-eating.

Myrmotherine :: Myrmotherine (a.) Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds.

Ophiophagous :: Ophiophagous (a.) Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.

Agistment :: Agistment (n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests..

Feeding :: Feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fee.

Carnivorous :: Carnivorous (a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics..

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish..

Soil :: Soil (v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse..

Depascent :: Depascent (a.) Feeding.

Stoker :: Stoker (v. t.) One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire..

Run :: Run (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run..

Batten :: Batten (v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.

Taster :: Taster (n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora..

Anthropophagous :: Anthropophagous (a.) Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

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