Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 14
Feathering (n.) The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.
Feathering (v. t.) A covering of feathers.
Featherless (a.) Destitute of feathers.
Featherly (a.) Like feathers.
Feather-pated (a.) Feather-headed; frivolous.
Feather-veined (a.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
Feathery (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.
Featly (a.) Neatly; dexterously; nimbly.
Featness (n.) Skill; adroitness.
Feature (n.) <Jargon> A good property or behaviour (as of a program).
Whether it was intended or not is immaterial.
Feature (n.) <Jargon> An intended property or behaviour (as of a program).
Whether it is good or not is immaterial (but if bad, it is also a misfeature).
Feature (n.) <Jargon> A surprising property or behaviour; in particular, one that is purposely inconsistent because it works better that way - such an inconsistency is therefore a feature and not a bug. This kind of feature is sometimes called a miswart.
Feature (n.) <Jargon> A property or behaviour that is gratuitous or unnecessary, though perhaps also impressive or cute. For example, one feature of Common LISP's "format" function is the ability to print numbers in two different Roman-numeral formats (see bells, whistles, and gongs).
Feature (n.) <Jargon> A property or behaviour that was put in to help someone else but that happens to be in your way.
Feature (n.) <Jargon> A bug that has been documented. To call something a feature sometimes means the author of the program did not consider the particular case, and that the program responded in a way that was unexpected but not strictly incorrect. A standard joke is that a bug can be turned into a feature simply by documenting it (then theoretically no one can complain about it because it's in the manual), or even by simply declaring it to be good. "That's not a bug, that's a feature!" is a common catch-phrase. Apparently there is a Volkswagen Beetle in San Francisco whose license plate reads "FEATURE".
See also feetch feetch, creeping featurism, wart, {green lightning}.
The relationship among bugs, features, misfeatures, warts and miswarts might be clarified by the following hypothetical exchange between two hackers on an airliner:
A: "This seat doesn't recline."
B: "That's not a bug, that's a feature. There is an emergency exit door built around the window behind you, and the route has to be kept clear."
A: "Oh. Then it's a misfeature; they should have increased the spacing between rows here."
B: "Yes. But if they'd increased spacing in only one section it would have been a wart - they would've had to make nonstandard-length ceiling panels to fit over the displaced seats."
A: "A miswart, actually. If they increased spacing throughout they'd lose several rows and a chunk out of the profit margin. So unequal spacing would actually be the Right Thing."
B: "Indeed."
"Undocumented feature" is a common euphemism for a bug.
Feature (n.) <Jargon> An attribute or function of a class in Eiffel.
[Jargon File] (1995-10-22)
Feature (n.) [Common] [C] 特徵，特色 [（+of）]；（眼，口，鼻等）臉的一部分； 面貌，相貌 [P] A good property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it was intended or not is immaterial.
Feature (n.) [Common] An intended property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it is good or not is immaterial (but if bad, it is also a {misfeature}).
Feature (n.) A surprising property or behavior; in particular, one that is purposely inconsistent because it works better that way ? such an inconsistency is therefore a {feature} and not a {bug}. This kind of feature is sometimes called a {miswart}; see that entry for a classic example.
Feature (n.) A property or behavior that is gratuitous or unnecessary, though perhaps also impressive or cute. For example, one feature of Common LISP's format function is the ability to print numbers in two different Roman-numeral formats (see {bells whistles and gongs}).
Feature (n.) A property or behavior that was put in to help someone else but that happens to be in your way.
Feature (n.) [Common] A bug that has been documented. To call something a feature sometimes means the author of the program did not consider the particular case, and that the program responded in a way that was unexpected but not strictly incorrect. A standard joke is that a bug can be turned into a {feature} simply by documenting it (then theoretically no one can complain about it because it's in the manual), or even by simply declaring it to be good. ?That's not a bug, that's a feature!? is a common catchphrase. See also {feetch feetch}, {creeping featurism}, {wart}, {green lightning}.
The relationship among bugs, features, misfeatures, warts, and miswarts might be clarified by the following hypothetical exchange between two hackers on an airliner:
A: ? This seat doesn't recline.?
B: ? That's not a bug, that's a feature. There is an emergency exit door built around the window behind you, and the route has to be kept clear.?
A: ? Oh. Then it's a misfeature; they should have increased the spacing between rows here.?
B: ? Yes. But if they'd increased spacing in only one section it would have been a wart ? they would've had to make nonstandard-length ceiling panels to fit over the displaced seats.?
A: ? A miswart, actually. If they increased spacing throughout they'd lose several rows and a chunk out of the profit margin. So unequal spacing would actually be the Right Thing.?
B: ? Indeed.?
Undocumented feature is a common, allegedly humorous euphemism for a {bug}. There's a related joke that is sometimes referred to as the ?one-question geek test?. You say to someone ?I saw a Volkswagen Beetle today with a vanity license plate that read FEATURE?. If he/ she laughs, he/ she is a {geek}.
Feature (n.) The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
What needeth it his feature to descrive? -- Chaucer.
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. -- Shak.
Feature (n.) The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
It is for homely features to keep home. -- Milton.
Feature (n.) The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature. -- Spenser.
Feature (n.) A form; a shape. [R.]
So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. -- Milton.
Feature (n.) A prominent attribute or aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics" [syn: {feature}, {characteristic}].
Feature (n.) The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular" [syn: {feature}, {lineament}].
Feature (n.) The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'" [syn: {feature}, {feature film}].
Feature (n.) A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine; "they ran a feature on retirement planning" [syn: {feature}, {feature article}].
Feature (n.) (Linguistics) A distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind [syn: {feature of speech}, {feature}].
Feature (n.) An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles.
Feature (v.) (v. t.) 以……為特色；是……的特色；（電影）由……主演；特載，以……作為號召 Have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France" [syn: {have}, {feature}] [ant: {lack}, {miss}].
Feature (v.) Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat" [syn: {sport}, {feature}, {boast}].
Featured (a.) Shaped; fashioned.
Featured (a.) Having features; formed into features.
Featureless (a.) Having no distinct or distinctive features.
Featurely (a.) Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.
Feazed (imp. & p. p.) of Feaze
Feazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feaze
Feaze (v. t.) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.
Feaze (v. t.) To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry.
Feaze (n.) A state of anxious or fretful excitement; worry; vexation.
Feazings (v. t.) The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.
Febricitate (v. i.) To have a fever.
Febriculose (a.) Somewhat feverish.
Febrifacient (a.) Febrific.
Febrifacient (n.) That which causes fever.
Febriferous (a.) Causing fever; as, a febriferous locality.
Febrific (a.) Producing fever.
Febrifugal (a.) Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever.
Febrifuge (n.) A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever.
Febrifuge (a.) Antifebrile.
Febrile (a.) 熱性的；發熱的；發熱所引起的 Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as, febrile symptoms; febrile action. -- Dunglison.
Febrile (a.) Of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen" [syn: {febrile}, {feverish}] [ant: {afebrile}].
February (n.) 二月 The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.
Februation (n.) Purification; a sacrifice.
Fecal (a.) relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal.
Fecche (v. t.) To fetch.
Feces (n. pl.) 排泄物；殘渣 Dregs; sediment; excrement. See {faeces}.
Compare: Faeces
Faeces (n. pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation. [Written also {feces}.]
Feces (n.) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: {fecal matter}, {faecal matter}, {feces}, {faeces}, {BM}, {stool}, {ordure}, {dejection}].
Fecial (a.) Pertaining to heralds, declarations of war, and treaties of peace; as, fecial law.
Fecifork (n.) The anal fork on which the larvae of certain insects carry their faeces.
Feckless (a.) Spiritless; weak; worthless.
Fecks (n.) A corruption of the word faith.
Feculae (n. pl. ) of Fecula
Fecula (n.) 澱粉 Any pulverulent matter obtained from plants by simply breaking down the texture, washing with water, and subsidence. Especially:
Fecula (n.) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also {amylaceous fecula}.
Fecula (n.) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.
Fecula (n.) Excreta (especially of insects).
Feculence (n.) 變濁；汙物；不潔 The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
Feculence (n.) That which is feculent; sediment; lees; dregs.
Feculence (n.) Something that is feculent.
Feculency (n.) Feculence.
Feculency (n.) An impurity.
Feculent (a.) 不潔的；骯髒的；臭的 Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Fecund (a.) 生殖力強的；多產的；肥沃的；豐饒的 Fruitful in children; prolific. -- Graunt.
Fecund (a.) Capable of producing offspring or vegetation.
Fecund (a.) Intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific].
Fecundated (imp. & p. p.) of Fecundate
Fecundating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fecundate
Fecundate (v. t.) To make fruitful or prolific.
Fecundate (v. t.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.
Fecundation (n.) The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.
Fecundify (v. t.) To make fruitful; to fecundate.
Fecundity (n.) The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
Fecundity (n.) The power of germinating; as in seeds.
Fecundity (n.) The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power.
Fed () imp. & p. p. of Feed.
Fedary (n.) A feodary.
Federal (a.) 聯邦的，聯合的，同盟的 Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.
Federal (a.) Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.
Federal (a.) Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer.
Federal (a.) Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist.
Federal (n.) See Federalist.
Federalism (n.) the principles of Federalists or of federal union.
Federalist (n.) An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.
Federalized (imp. & p. p.) of Federalize
Federalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Federalize
Federalize (v. t.) 使成聯邦；使成同盟 To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution. -- Barlow.
Federalize (v.) Unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war" [syn: {federate}, {federalize}, {federalise}].
Federalize (v.) Put under the control and authority of a federal government [syn: {federalize}, {federalise}].
Federalize (v.) Enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union" [syn: {federate}, {federalize}, {federalise}].
Federary (n.) A partner; a confederate; an accomplice.
Federate (a.) 同盟的；聯邦的 United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
Syn: federated.
Federate (a.) United under a central government [syn: {federate}, {federated}].
Federate (v.) (v. t.) 使結成同盟；使結成聯邦 Enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union" [syn: {federate}, {federalize}, {federalise}].
Federate (v.) Unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war" [syn: {federate}, {federalize}, {federalise}].
Federation (n.) <Security> The establishment of some or all of business agreements, cryptographic trust and user identifiers or attributes across security and policy domains to enable more seamless business interaction.
As web services promise to enable integration between business partners through loose coupling at the application and messaging layer, federation does so at the identity management layer, insulating each domain from the details of the others' authentication and authorization. Key to this loose coupling at the identity management layer are standardized mechanisms and formats for the communication of identity information between the domains. SAML is one such standard. (2011-05-12)
Federation (n.) 聯邦政府；聯邦制度 [C]；聯邦化 [U]；聯盟；聯合會 [C] The act of uniting in a league; confederation.
Federation (n.) A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government. -- Burke.
Federation (n.) An organization formed by merging several groups or parties.
Federation (n.) A union of political organizations [syn: {confederation}, {confederacy}, {federation}].
Federation (n.) The act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs.
Federative (a.) 聯邦的；聯盟的；聯合的；具有聯盟（或聯邦）性質的 Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy; federal. "A federative society." -- Burke.
Fedity (n.) Turpitude; vileness.
Fee (n.) （付給律師，醫生等的）酬金，服務費 [C]；費用（如學費，會費，入場費等）[C]；賞金，小帳 [C] Property; possession; tenure. "Laden with rich fee." -- Spenser.
Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. -- Wordsworth.
Fee (n.) Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. -- Shak.
Fee (n.) (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
Fee (n.) (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
Note: All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs. -- Blackstone.
Fee (n.) (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
{Fee estate} (Eng. Law), Land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord.
{Fee farm} (Law), Land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. -- Blackstone.
{Fee farm rent} (Eng. Law), A perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple.
{Fee fund} (Scot. Law), Certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid.
{Fee simple} (Law), An absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits.
Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. -- Shak.
{Fee tail} (Law), An estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. -- Burill.
Feed (imp. & p. p.) of Fee
Feeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fee
Fee (v. t.) 付費（或小帳）給【英】聘用 To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
The patient . . . fees the doctor. -- Dryden.
There's not a one of them but in his house
I keep a servant feed. -- Shak.
Fee (n.) A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
Fee (n.) An interest in land capable of being inherited
Fee (v.) Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward" [syn: {tip}, {fee}, {bung}]
Fee, Feodum or Feudum (n.), Estates. From the French, fief. A fee is an estate which may continue forever. The word fee is explained to signify that the land, or other subject of property, belongs to its owner, and is transmissible, in the case of an individual, to those whom the law appoints to succeed him, under the appellation of heirs; and in the case of corporate bodies, to those who are to take on themselves the corporate function; and from the manner in which the body is to be continued, are denominated successors. 1 Co. Litt. 1, 271, b; Wright's Ten. 147, 150; 2 Bl. Com. 104. 106; Bouv. Inst. Index h.t.
Fee, Feodum or Feudum (n.), Estates in fee are of several sorts, and have different denominations, according to their several natures and respective qualities. They 'may with propriety be divided into, 1. Fees simple. 2. Fees determinable. 3. Fees qualified. 4. Fees conditional and 5. Fees tail.
Fee, Feodum or Feudum (n.), A fee simple is an estate inlands or tenements which, in reference to the ownership of individuals, is not restrained to any heirs in particular, nor subject to any condition or collateral determination except the laws of escheat and the canons of descent, by which it may, be qualified, abridged or defeated. In other words, an estate in fee simple absolute, is an estate limited to a person and his heirs general or indefinite. Watk. Prin. Con. 76. And the omission of the word `his' will not vitiate the estate, nor are the words "and assigns forever" necessary to create it, although usually added. Co. Litt. 7, b 9, b; 237, b Plowd. 28, b; 29, a; Bro. Abr. Estates, 4. 1 Co. Litt. 1, b; Plowd. 557 2 Bl. Com. 104, 106 Hale's Analysis, 74. The word fee simple is sometimes used by the best writers on the law as contrasted with estates tail. 1 Co. Litt. 19. In this sense, the term comprehends all other fees as well as the estate, properly, and in strict propriety of technical language, peculiarly' distinguished by this appellation.
Fee, Feodum or Feudum (n.), A determinable fee is an estate which may continue forever. Plowd. 557; Shep. Touch. 97. It is a quality of this estate while it falls under this denomination, that it is liable to be determined by some act or event, expressed on its limitation, to circumscribe its continuance, or inferred by the law as bounding its extent. 2 Bl. Com. 109. Limitations to a man. and his heirs, till the marriage of such. a person shall take place; Cro. Jac. 593; 10 Vin. Abr. 133; till debts shall be paid; Fearne, 187 until a minor shall attain the age of twenty-one years 3 Atk. 74 Ambler, 204; 9 Mod. 28 10 Vin. Abr. 203. Feariae, 342; are instances of such a determinable fee.
Fee, Feodum or Feudum (n.), Qualified fee, is an interest given on its, first limitation, to a man and to certain of his heirs, and not to extend to all of them generally, nor confined to the issue of his body. A limitation to a man and his heirs on the part of his father, affords an example of this species of estate. Litt. 254 1 Inst. 27, a 220; 1 Prest. on Estates, 449.
Fee, Feodum or Feudum (n.), A conditional fee, in the more general acceptation of the term, is when, to the limitation of an estate a condition is annexed, which renders the estate liable to be defeated. 10 Rep. 95, b. In this application of the term, either a determinable or a qualified fee may at the same time be a conditional fee. An estate limited to a man and his heirs, to commence on the performance of a condition, is also frequently described by this appellation. Prest. on East. 476; Fearne, 9.
Fee, Feodum or Feudum (n.), As to fee-tail, see Tail.
Feeble (a.) 虛弱的，衰弱的；無力的；（智力，性格等）弱的，軟弱的；拙劣無效的；站不住腳的 Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. -- 2 Chron. xxviii. 15.
Feeble (a.) Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion. "A lady's feeble voice." -- Shak.
Feeble (v. t.) To make feble; to enfeeble. [Obs.]
Shall that victorious hand be feebled here? -- Shak.
Feeble (a.) Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument" [syn: {feeble}, {lame}].
Feeble (a.) Lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice" [syn: {faint}, {feeble}].
Feeble (a.) Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: {decrepit}, {debile}, {feeble}, {infirm}, {rickety}, {sapless}, {weak}, {weakly}].
Feeble (a.) Lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {feeble}, {nerveless}].
Feeble-minded (a.) 低能的；愚笨的；意志薄弱的 Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacilating; imbecile. "comfort the feeble-minded." --1 Thess. v. 14. -- {Fee"ble-mind"ed*ness}, n.
Feebleminded (a.) Retarded in intellectual development [syn: {backward}, {half-witted}, {slow-witted}, {feebleminded}].
Feebleness (n.) 衰弱，虛弱，無力 [U] The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
That shakes for age and feebleness. -- Shak.
Feebleness (n.) The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) [syn: {infirmity}, {frailty}, {debility}, {feebleness}, {frailness}, {valetudinarianism}].
Feebleness (n.) The quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {feebleness}, {tenuity}].
Feebly (adv.) 衰弱地；無力地 In a feeble manner.
The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart. -- Macaulay.
Feebly (adv.) In a faint and feeble manner; "the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway".
Feebly (adv.) In a halting and feeble manner; "reform, in fact, is, rather feebly, on the win".
Fed (imp. & p. p.) of Feed
Feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feed
Feed (v. t.) 餵（養）；飼（養）[（+on/ with）] ；進（料）；投入；供給；提供[（+with）] 【口】向……提供 [O1] To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
If thine enemy hunger, feed him. -- Rom. xii. 20.
Unreasonable creatures feed their young. -- Shak.
Feed (v. t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. -- Shak.
Feeding him with the hope of liberty. -- Knolles.
Feed (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.
Feed (v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
Thou shalt feed my people Israel. -- 2 Sam. v. 2.
Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed. -- B. Cornwall.
Feed (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.
Once in three years feed your mowing lands. -- Mortimer.
Feed (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.