Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed.
B. Cornwall.
5. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle;
as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
Once in three years feed your mowing lands.
Mortimer.
6. To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption;
as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
7. (Mach.) (a) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a
machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press. (b) To produce
progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working
machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to
the work).
Feed, v. i. 1. To take food; to eat.
Her kid . . . which I afterwards killed because it would not feed.
De Foe.
2. To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self
(upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon.
Shak.
3. To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food. "He
feeds upon the cooling shade." Spenser.