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English Dictionary: victual	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
victual n any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals] v supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war" lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage" take in nourishment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Victual \Vict"ual\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Victualed}or {Victualled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Victualing} or {Victualling}.] 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.