FPage 72
- English Word Feed Definition The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
- English Word Feed Definition The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
- English Word Feed Definition The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
- English Word Feeder Definition One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
- English Word Feeder Definition One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
- English Word Feeder Definition One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
- English Word Feeder Definition One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
- English Word Feeder Definition A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.
- English Word Feeder Definition A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
- English Word Feeder Definition A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
- English Word Feeder Definition A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
- English Word Feeder Definition An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
- English Word Feeder Definition A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
- English Word Feeding Definition of Feed
- English Word Feeding Definition the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.
- English Word Feeding Definition That which is eaten; food.
- English Word Feeding Definition That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land.
- English Word Feeing Definition of Fee
- English Word Feejee Definition See Fijian.
- English Word Feel Definition To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs.