Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Food; eatables; victuals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Prov. Eng. & Scot. Provisions; victuals.
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- noun obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect
provisions ;victuals
Etymologies
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Examples
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Scotchman is silent upon the subject of "vivers," and wisely talks not of either "crowdy" or barley meal, but tells of the time when he was a sitter in the kirk of the Rev. Peter Poundtext, showing his Christian charity by the most profound contempt as well for the ordinances of the
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America Frederick 1845
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Then he made ready vivers and carriage for the journey and, going in to his daughter by night, bade her prepare to set out on a pleasure-excursion.
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I carried the vivers to my sleeping place in the cavern-side and ate and drank of them sparingly, no more than sufficed to keep the life in me, lest the provaunt come speedily to an end and I perish of hunger and thirst.
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So he betook himself forthright to the market and buying what he needed of vivers and bedding and covering, returned to the port and went on board the ship, which was ready to sail and tarried with him but a little while before she weighed anchor and fared on, without stopping, till she reached
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The man took him home and treated him honourably; then, furnishing him with vivers for the voyage and giving him some gold pieces, embarked him on board the vessel bound for Damietta.
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Dragon consumed the dainty vivers that were placed before them.
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Glencro sooner nor hae them think there was nae rowth o 'vivers whaur they never wer sent awa empty-haunded afore.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Other troubles they had, more sensibly felt than the coarse quality of the vivers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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'There was sic an unco carfuffle that I had clean forgot the vivers.'
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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The house, also, without being tavern or shop, was an amateur bazaar of _vivers_ and goods.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various
Gammerstang commented on the word vivers
(pl. noun) - (1) Food provisions, victuals, eatables; adaptation of Old French vivres, plural of vivre, food, sustenance. Only Scottish until the nineteenth century. Its later currency is probably due to its frequent occurrence in Waverly novels. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928 (2) From Latin vivo, to live. --Edward Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1895
April 23, 2018