feed

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To give food to; supply with nourishment.
• intransitive verb To provide as food or nourishment.
• intransitive verb To serve as food for.
• intransitive verb To produce food for.
• intransitive verb To provide for consumption, utilization, or operation.
• intransitive verb To supply with something essential for growth, maintenance, or operation.
• intransitive verb To transmit (media content) by means of a communications network or satellite, as for processing or distribution.
• intransitive verb To minister to; gratify.
• intransitive verb To support or promote; encourage.
• intransitive verb To supply as a cue.
• intransitive verb Sports To pass a ball or puck to (a teammate), especially to set up a scoring chance.
• intransitive verb To eat. Used of animals.
• intransitive verb To be nourished or supported.
• intransitive verb To move steadily, as into a machine for processing.
• intransitive verb To be channeled; flow.
• noun Food for animals, especially livestock.
• noun The amount of such food given at one time.
• noun Informal A meal, especially a large one.
• noun The act of providing food, especially to an animal.
• noun Material or an amount of material supplied, as to a machine or furnace.
• noun The act of supplying such material.
• noun An apparatus that supplies material to a machine.
• noun The aperture through which such material enters a machine.
• noun The transmission or conveyance of published content, as by satellite, on the Internet, or by broadcast over a network of stations.
• noun A signal or program made by means of such transmission.
• noun Sports A pass of a ball or puck, especially to set up a scoring chance.
• idiom (be off (one's) feed) To have lost one's appetite.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In founding, to supply extra metal to (a thick, heavy casting) while it is setting.
• noun Food, properly for domestic or other animals; that which is eaten by a domestic animal; provender; fodder.
• noun Pasture-ground: grazing-land.
• noun A meal, or the act of eating.
• noun A certain allowance of provender given: as, a feed of corn or oats.
• noun In mech.:
• noun The motion or advance of any material which is being fed to a machine, as of cloth to the needle of a sewing-machine.
• noun The material upon which a machine operates, as the grain running into a grinding-mill.
• noun The advance of a cutting-tool, as the cutter of a planer, or the chisel of a lathe, upon or into the material to be cut.
• noun Same as food, n., 4.
• noun The amount of water needed in a canal-lock to allow of the passage of a boat.
• noun In stone-sawing, sand and water employed to assist the saw-blade in cutting.
• noun Synonyms Feed, Food, Fodder, Provender, Forage. Feed for animals, especially animals kept for work or fattening for the market; food for human beings and the smaller animals, household pets, etc.; fodder, dry or green feed for animals, but not pasturage; provender, dry feed. Forage is rarely used except for fodder furnished for horses in an army, generally by foraging. Food is also a general word for that which supplies nourishment to any organized body.