Category:Victual

Vict"ual, 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 Movers. Tennyson. Short allowance of victual. Longfellow.

2. Grain of any kind. [scot.] Jamieson.

Victual Vict"ual, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualed or victualled; p. pr. & vb. N. Victualing or victualling.]

Defn: to supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with Food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a Ship. I must go victual orleans forthwith. Shak.