“The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty’s revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary’s expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which theyfed the faster, and grew sooner fat;[...]
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old marefeeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
If grain is too forward in autumn,feed it with sheep.
1707,J[ohn] Mortimer,The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land.[…], London:[…] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock[…], and J[onathan] Robinson[…],→OCLC:
Once in three years, or every other year,feed your mowing-lands.
Morrison then played a pivotal role in West Brom's equaliser, powering through the middle andfeedingTchoyi, whose low, teasing right-wing cross was poked in byThomas at the far post
(phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
Nasalizationfeeds raising.
(syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
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184?, Henry Mayhew,London Labour and the London Poor
One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do afeed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited;[…]
"There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice littlefeeds at restaurants."
(countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
(syndication or aggregation):antichronological sequence ofposts orarticles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
I've subscribed to thefeeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.
2016 March 15, Mike Isaac, “Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:
Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets.
I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in myfeed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request.
2020 November 24, Charlie Warzel, “What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers”, inThe New York Times[2],→ISSN:
Despite spending years studying these toxic dynamics and the better part of a month watching them up close in strangers’feeds, I was still, like so many, surprised to see it all reflected at the ballot box. We shouldn’t have been surprised; our divisions have been in front of our faces and inside ourfeeds this whole time.
2020, Oliver Double,Alternative Comedy: 1979 and the Reinvention of British Stand-Up, page38:
Don Ward is often described as a former comic, having some experience in this area as a young man, acting as afeed for the comic actor David Lodge at Parkins Holiday Camp in Jersey[…]
(Internet)feed(encapsulated online content that one can subscribe to)
2019 March 13, Leslie Santana, “Primero Facebook, y ahora cae Instagram”, inEl Universal (Mexico)[3]:
De acuerdo con downdetector.com un 49% de los usuarios de la red, no puede actualizar sufeed, el 31% no logra entrar a Instagram y el 18% no puede verlo desde su computadora.
According to downdetector.com, 49% of the network's users can't update theirfeed, 31% can't enter Instagram and 18% can't see it on their computer.
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