Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A substance or material suitable for food; anything used for the sustenance of man.
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Examples
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The calcined bones I had rescued were kept in one of the big, rudely shaped, half-burnt earthen jars which Nuflo had used for storing grain and other food-stuff.
Green Mansions 2004
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Here, besides the food-stuff, he had already stored a quantity of dried tobacco leaf, his rude weapons, cooking utensils, ropes, mats, and other objects.
Green Mansions 2004
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Heat causes growth, and fits the food-stuff for alimentation; it attracts [into the organic system] that which is light [viz. the sweet], while the salt and bitter it rejects because of their heaviness.
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Heat causes growth, and fits the food-stuff for alimentation; it attracts [into the organic system] that which is light [viz. the sweet], while the salt and bitter it rejects because of their heaviness.
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_ -- Mineral matter is a second food-stuff that is needed by the body, but the amount required is very small.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education
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As arms alone could not subdue the Boers, some other expedient had to be tried -- the starvation process was resorted to; all food-stuff had to be destroyed or removed, so that the burghers should not obtain sustenance.
In the Shadow of Death P. H. Kritzinger
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Absolutely necessary foodstuffs to be recommended in this case are clams, sole and water cress, because they contain more organic iodine than any other known food-stuff.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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Banana-meal is an important food-stuff; the fruit is peeled and cut in strips, which are then dried and pounded in a mortar.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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In addition to the four food-stuffs already studied, cereals contain a small amount of another food-stuff known as protein -- a muscle-building material.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education
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To combine the foods properly, so that they will contain adequate proportions of each food-stuff at every meal.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education
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