3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Victual \Vict"ual\ (v[i^]t"'l), n. 1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See {Victuals}. --2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak. [1913 Webster] He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. --Knolles. [1913 Webster] There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the mowers. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] Short allowance of victual. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 2. Grain of any kind. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] I must go victual Orleans forthwith. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: victual n : any substance that can be used as food [syn: {comestible}, {edible}, {eatable}, {pabulum}, {victuals}] v 1: supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war" 2: lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage" 3: take in nourishment [also: {victualling}, {victualled}]
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