Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Food (-'s)
food (-'s), n. [OE.] (webplay: eaten, growth, supplies).
- Nourishment; diet; essential nutrients for sustaining life.
- Sustenance; aliment; life support; energy from nutriments delivered by respiration and digestion via the blood; [fig.] breath; language; [metaphor] sacrament; physical and spiritual salvation delivered by the atonement via the sacrificial blood of the Lord.
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