feeding

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FEE'DING, participle present tense Giving food or nutriment; furnishing provisions; eating; taking food or nourishment; grazing; supplying water or that which is constantly consumed; nourishing; supplying fuel or incentives. FEE'DING, noun Rich pasture.
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