Feed
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) 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.
(2): ( v. t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
(3): ( n.) A meal, or the act of eating.
(4): ( n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
(5): ( n.) A grazing or pasture ground.
(6): ( n.) That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
(7): ( v. i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
(8): ( v. i.) To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food.
(9): ( v. i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; - with on or upon.
(10): ( v. i.) To take food; to eat.
(11): ( v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
(12): ( v. t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
(13): ( v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
(14): ( v. t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
(15): ( v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
(16): ( v. t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
(17): ( v. t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
(18): ( n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
(19): ( n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.
(20): ( imp. & p. p.) of Fee
(21): ( n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones.
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [2]
FED, FEED
The expression of feeding in Scripture is, sometimes applied in a good sense, and sometimes in a bad one. When men are nourished with the word of life, they are said to be fed. Hence the Lord promised to give pastors to the church, "that should feed his people with understanding and knowledge?" ( Jeremiah 3:15) And on the contrary, in those who take up with false doctrines, they are said to feed on wind. ( Hosea 12:5) to feed on ashes, and the like. ( Isaiah 44:20)
But the general and principal use of the term in Scripture of feeding, is applied to the Lord Jesus Christ. "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd." ( Isaiah 44:11) And as feeding is a comprehensive expression, to denote every thing relating to the office of a shepherd, so whenever this act of love and attention is spoken of in allusion to the Lord Jesus Christ, it means to convey the whole of his character, both in his relation as a shepherd to his people, and the tenderness of his care over them. The church is his flock, his property, his purchase, his glory. He hath a perfect knowledge of all his sheep. He provides pasture; yea, is himself their food and portion. He protects from beasts of prey, heals the diseased, gathers home the wanderer, leads the flock out to wholesome pastures, and, in short, doth the whole office of a shepherd; and doth it in such a way, and with so much love and tenderness, that they are most blessed who belong to his fold. Sweet thought of the Psalmist, and which equally may be taken up by every lamb of Christ's fo1d: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." ( Psalms 23:1-6 throughout.)
King James Dictionary [3]
FEED, pret. and pp. See Father.
1. To give food to as, to feed an infant to feed horses and oxen. 2. To supply with provisions. We have flour and meat enough to feed the army a month. 3. To supply to furnish with any thing of which there is constant consumption, waste or use. Springs, feed ponds, lakes and rivers ponds and streams feed canals. Mills are fed from hoppers. 4. To graze to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. 5. To nourish to cherish to supply with nutriment as, to feed hope or expectation to feed vanity. 6. To keep in hope or expectation as, to feed one with hope. 7. To supply fuel as, to feed a fire. 8. To delight to supply with something desirable to entertain as, to feed the eye with the beauties of a landscape. 9. To give food or fodder for fattening to fatten. The county of Hampshire, in Massachusetts, feeds a great number of cattle for slaughter. 10. To supply with food, and to lead, guard and protect a scriptural sense.
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. Isaiah 40 .
FEED,
1. To take food to eat. 2. To subsist by eating to prey. Some birds feed on seeds and berries, others on flesh. 3. To pasture to graze to place cattle to feed. Exodus 22 . 4. To grow fat.
FEED, n.
1. Food that which is eaten pasture fodder applied to that which is eaten by beasts, not to the food of men. The hills of our country furnish the best feed for sheep. 2. Meal, or act of eating.
For such pleasure till that hour at feed or fountain never had I found.
