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Victual \Vict"ual\ (v[i^]t"'l), n.
1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See {Victuals}.
--2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak.
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He was not able to keep that place three days for
lack of victual. --Knolles.
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There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand
Bare victual for the mowers. --Tennyson.
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Short allowance of victual. --Longfellow.
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2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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Victual \Vict"ual\ (v[i^]t"'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Victualed}
(v[i^]t"'ld) 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.
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I must go victual Orleans forthwith. --Shak.
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