Dictionary entry

Victual

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Vict″ual (vĭt″'l), 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 mowers. Tennyson.

Short allowance of victual. Longfellow.

2. Grain of any kind. Jamieson.