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.
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Vict"ual (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victualed (?) 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.
I must go victual Orleans forthwith.
Shak.
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