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Malassimilation :: Malassimilation (n.) Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.

Misericordia :: Misericordia (n.) An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.

Alimentiveness :: Alimentiveness (n.) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.

Runner :: Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water..

Unabsorbable :: Unabsorbable (a.) Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food..

Mess :: Mess (n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time..

Grouper :: Grouper (n.) One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico..

Salt :: Salt (n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles..

Rumination :: Rumination (n.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man..

Broccoli :: Broccoli (n.) A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The curd, or flowering head, is the part used for food..

Trencher :: Trencher (v. t.) The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme..

Bait :: Bait (v. t.) To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses..

Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs..

Peptone :: Peptone (n.) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.

Cram :: Cram (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

Lientery :: Lientery (n.) A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change..

Cook :: Cook (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat..

Spoon :: Spoon (n.) An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food..

Chitterlings :: Chitterlings (n. pl.) The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food..

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