FEEDINGSTUFFS Synonyms

• material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

• foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure

• be silly or tease one another

• tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times

• the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal

• ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food

• a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

• (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)

• whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn

• something sentimental or trite

• feed (cattle) with corn

• preserve with large-grained rock salt

• food for domestic livestock

• provide as food

• give food to

• feed into; supply

• introduce continuously

• support or promote

• take in food; used of animals only

• serve as food for; be the food for

• move along, of liquids

• profit from in an exploitatory manner

• gratify

• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

• bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

• the act of searching for food and provisions

• collect or look around for (food)

• wander and feed

• the act of grazing

• the act of brushing against while passing

• grass mowed and cured for use as fodder

• convert (plant material) into hay

• a source of materials to nourish the body

• the act of nourishing

• food for domestic livestock

• a stock or supply of foods

• a source of materials to nourish the body

• the financial means whereby one lives

• the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence

• a stock or supply of foods

• a source of materials to nourish the body

• any substance that can be used as food

• soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

• coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

• give fodder (to domesticated animals)

• a relatively small granular particle of a substance

• foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

• the side of leather from which the hair has been removed

• a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat

• 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams

• 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams

• dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

• a cereal grass

• the smallest possible unit of anything

• the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric

• the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)

• thoroughly work in

• paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood

• form into grains

• become granular

• annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')

• seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')

• a small rounded mass of a substance

• a solid missile discharged from a firearm