Word Meanings - GLANDAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A feeding on nuts or mast. Crabb.

Related words: (words related to GLANDAGE)

• CRABBER
  One who catches crabs.
• CRABBISH
  Somewhat sour or cross. The wips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker.
• CRABBING
  The foghting of hawks with each other. (more info) 1. The act or art of catching crabs.
• CRABBED
  1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak. 2. Characterized by harshness or roughness;
• FEEDING
  1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening. 2. That which is eaten; food. 3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
• FEED
  f, fr. f food; akin to C. f, OFries f, f, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, 1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak. 2.
• CRABBY
  Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston.
• FEEDER
  An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith. 2. One
• STALL-FEED
  To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.
• OVERFEED
  To feed to excess; to surfeit.
• SCRABBLE
  1. To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his
• SCRABBED EGGS
  A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper. Halliwell.
• UNDERFEED
  To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.
• KNIFEEDGE; KNIFE-EDGE
  A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of