Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FEED
FEED, n.
- Food; that which is eaten; pasture; fodder; applied to that which it eaten by beasts, not to the food of men. The hills of our country furnish the best feed for sheep.
- Meal, or act of eating. For such pleasure till that hour / At feed or fountain never bad I found. Milton.
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