Devolve and Feed

verb

• Pass on or delegate to another.
  • usage: "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
• Be inherited by.
  • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • synonyms: fall, return, pass
• Grow worse.
  • usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
  • synonyms: deteriorate, drop, degenerate

• (v.t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
• (v.t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
• (v.i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.

To pass on or delegate to another, e. G. A' DEVOLVE'd letter of credit.

noun

• Food for domestic livestock.
  • synonyms: provender

verb

• Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on.
  • usage: "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"
  • synonyms: tip, fee, bung
• Provide as food.
  • usage: "Feed the guests the nuts"
• Give food to.
  • usage: "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
  • synonyms: give
• Feed into; supply.
  • usage: "Her success feeds her vanity"
• Introduce continuously.
  • usage: "feed carrots into a food processor"
  • synonyms: feed in
• Support or promote.
  • usage: "His admiration fed her vanity"
• Take in food; used of animals only.
  • usage: "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat"
  • synonyms: eat
• Serve as food for; be the food for.
  • usage: "This dish feeds six"
• Move along, of liquids.
  • usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
  • synonyms: run, flow, course
• Profit from in an exploitatory manner.
  • usage: "He feeds on her insecurity"
  • synonyms: prey
• Gratify.
  • usage: "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
  • synonyms: feast
• Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to.
  • usage: "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
  • synonyms: fertilize, fertilise

• (n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace or grain to a run of stones.
• (v.t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
• (n.) A grazing or pasture ground.
• (n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
• (imp.&p.p.) of Fee.
• (v.t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste or desire.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.i.) To take food; to eat.
• (v.t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
• (v.t.) 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).
• (n.) That which is eaten; especially, food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
• (n.) The motion or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
• (n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
• (v.t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
• (n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.
• (v.t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
• (v.i.) To be nourished, strengthened or satisfied, as if by food.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (n.) A meal or the act of eating.
• (v.i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
• (v.i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.