(n.) That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment.
(v. t. & i.) To supply food to; to feast; to take food.
Example Sentences:
(1) The trailer used to be the hors d’oeuvre before the main course; now it’s being treated as a significant repast in its own right, a sort of antipasti before we get stuck into the spaghetti alle vongole.
(2) We are cheered when we observe the vulture feeding on the carrion which disgusts and disheartens us and deriving health and strength from the repast.
Viand
Definition:
(n.) An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) with a Viande-Foie (VF) broth culture of Clostridium perfringens together with the antitoxin A survived, whereas those receiving antitoxin C died.
(2) c) The strips were inoculated with a modified Viande-Levure medium containing Tween 80, vitamin K3 and hemin.
(3) A newspaper fantasised about Mosley's life inside, imagining a butler and unrationed viands; he sued for libel and the couple saw each other for moments at court.
(4) Widely credited with the best Sunday roasts in London, McGee is now turning his hand to Christmas, rustling up trademark sharing platters of delectable festive viands (two-course Christmas menu £28, three courses £32).
(5) The test laboratory of the "Centre technique de la salaison, de la charcuterie et des conserves de viandes" has evaluated the nitrite and nitrate salts contents of 1 468 cooked hams and shoulders.
(6) Only in egg-yolk triple-salt medium did all tested phospholipase-C-producing clostridia form a lecitho-vitellin precipitate after overnight incubation; 95.5% formed a high-density precipitate in the new medium as opposed to 6.1%, 6.6%, 10.6% and 20.2% of the isolates not forming a visible precipitate in liver-veal, Lombard-Dowell, McClung and Toabe modified, and "viande-levure" egg-yolk media, respectively, after the same incubation time.