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Feed (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Feed, v. i. 1. To take food; to eat.

Her kid... which I afterwards killed because it would not feed. De Foe.

2. To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; — with on or upon.

Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon. Shak.

3. To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food. “He feeds upon the cooling shade.” Spenser.

4. To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.

If a man... shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field. Ex. xxii. 5.