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VICTUAL.
Soc.) 88 The Hand Zante hathe all theire provition of vhtell
from ihence. a z6x8 Sylvester Maidens Blush. 355 Th'
Heav'niy Herald, .sees there the Brethren lying Along the
Grasse, and busi« at their Vittle. 1663 Butler Hud. i. i.
316 B'or, as we said, he always chose To carry Vittle in his
Hose. 17*3 Swift SUllaat iVoodpark Wks, 1755 IV. 1. 40,
I must confess, your wine and vittle I was too hard upon a
little. 1748 Marv Leai'or Poems Sev. Occasions 124 When
you gather Strength a little, Ca» walk abroad and eat your
Vittle. 1780 Burns Robin shure in Hairst iv, Robin promised
me A my winter vittle. 1847- in dial, glossaries, etc.
{Wore, Hereford, Shropsh., Warw., Gloc, Dorset) in the
\6xm.fiUle. i88i Gd. Words 846/1 It's a pity as you've no
stomach to yer vittle.
«. 1513 Ckomwell in Mcrriman Life ^ Lett. {1902) I. 39
The Krenche men.. lye yn waytc.to destroye the Conductours
of our victuayle. «5S9-66 in Wodroxv Soc. Misc.
{1844) 71 To hinder the victuall from comeing to Edinburgh.
1570-6 W. Lambarde Peramb. Kent 130 Deuouring and
consuming.. the victuall of the countrey. 1603 Knolles
Hist. Turks {1621) 1247 Germenchius hath put in three
moneths victuall into Hust in Transylvania. 16*7 Bacon
Sylva g 649 The Making of Things Inalimental, to become
Alimental, may be an Experiment of great Profit, for Making
new Victual. 1681 H. Nkvile Plato Rediv. 92 The
cheapness of Victual, and the want of Labourers. 1765
Hlackstone Comm. I. 60 It might seem to prohibit the
buying of grain and other victual. 18x7 Byron Beppo xxix,
.\nd Laura waited long, and wept a little,. .She almost lost
all appetite for victual. 1856 Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks.
(18701 I. 1 1 1 A refreshment-room, with drinks and cakes and
pastry, but , .no substantial victual. 1859 Tennyson Geraint
4- Enid 201 A fidr-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare
victual for the mowers.
+ b. Produce of the ground capable of being used
as food. Obs.
H^hite zn'ctual (quot. 1799), = next.
c 1374 Chaucer Former A?e 36 Ther as vitayle is ek so
skars and thinne pat nat but mast or apples is ther inne.
c 1386 — Clerk's T. 3 Ther is at the West side of Ytaille.
A lusty playne, habundant of viiaillc. 1615 Bacon Ess.,
Plantation (Arb.) 531 Then consider, what Victuall or
Esculent Things there are, which grow speedily, and within
the yeere. 1627 May Lucan iv. 99 Nor can the souldiers
goe To forrage : the drown'd fields no vittaile leaue. 1798
Malthus PoPul. (1878) 228 This may be justly attributed to
the effects of the scarcity and bad victual in the year 1783.
"799 J- Robertson Agric. Perth 147 The land is pulverized
andbelter made for the succeeding crop of white victual.
C. Sc. Grain, corn. ? Obs,
1473 Rental Bk. Cupar- Angus (1879) I. 171 Alsua tha sal
haue the tend vitale for ij*^ of here and mele. 1557 Rec.
/ttverness (^ew Spald. CI.) I. 7 To.. pay Isbell Damster
the hyest price of ane boll wyttuell andthrepects toentres.
1585 Reg. Mag, Sig. Scot. 292/1 For payment.. of aucht
chalderis 3 botlis wictuall, thairof 45 bollis beir and the
remanent meill. 1609 Skene Reg. Ma/., Stat. Robert /,
36 It is statute be the king, that all they quha buyes
victuall. .fra burgcssis at their granares, they .. may carie
that victuall quhere they please. 1678 Sia G. Mackenzie
Crim. La7vs Scot.\.xx\v.%iiib(^) 119 Usury is that Crime
. .committed in Bargains of Victual, or Tacks. Ibid. 11. xiv.
§1. 3IX A landed man, whose Rent exceeds a thousand
Merks, or ten Chalders of Victual. 17*6 P. Walker Li/e
A. Peden in Biog. Presbyt. (1827) I. 53 He enquired at Mrs.
Steil, if she wanted a Servant for threshing Victual? 1785
Burns i,rd Epist. to Lapraik vii, [Till] a* the vittle [be] in
the yard. An' theekit right. 1799 J. Robertson Agric. Perth
99 In drying on the iron floor, the victual must be constantly
turned. i8i» G. Chalmers Dotn. Econ. Gt. Brit. 262
Though neither the nominal, nor the real, prices of victual
were equal to those of the times of queen Anne. i8sa Galt
Sir A. tVylie xlii, He has been very kind to the poor, having
divided five load of victual among all the needful in the
parish. 1843 Report yedbitrgh Thirtage Trial ^^ A portion
of that corn or victual, ground at the mills, which is kept
by the miller.
fd. ;Seequot.^ Obs,-*"
1688 R. Holme Armoury 11. 341/1 ViUlitOC ViaHdeSfXhit
terra for Hawks meat.
2. pi. Articles of food ; supplies, or various
kinds, of provisions ; in later use esp, articles of
ordinary diet prepared for use.
a. 13.. A'. Alls. 855 (Laud MS.), And Olyfauntz & ek
Camayles, Bobe hij charged wijr vitailes. a 1350 Will.
Palenu 1121 Wei l>ei were wamestured of vitayles i-now,
plentiuosly foral peple. 13187 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 55
Whanne der^e of vitailles is in al Engelond aboute, fwre is
be lasse i-solde. c 1444 Lvtx:. in Pol. Poems\^o\\%) II. 220
10 chese suych vitaylles ther braynes wer to woode. 14S9
Caxton Faytes 0/ A. 11. xxx. 142 Cartes shal folowe for to
bryng and arriue the vitailles fro the shippes. a 1533 Ld.
Berners Huon Ixi. 213 They bare all in to y« shypTS: vy*
tay ties suffycyent. 1555 Edkm Decades ( Arb.) 77 The vytayles
(especially the byskettc breade) corrupted by takynge water.
1496 Bp. W. Barlow Three Serm. ii. 47 Among all other,
limine and Dearth of vittails is not the least. 1607 Dkkker
& Webster Sir T. Wyatt Wks. 1873 I i 1. 103 Good victailes
makes good blood. 1616 R. C. Times* Whistle (1871) 85
Which! paide.., Because they should not think I came
to sharke Only for vittailes.
3. 1375 Barbour Bruce xv. 92 Schlr Eduard gert men
gang and se All the vtulis of that cite. ^14x5 Wyntoun
Cron. VIM. 5027 IHe] Saw his wictalis war nere gane. And
hop of reskew had he nane. 1453-4 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin
(1889} I. 380 That at maner of viteiloures..shulde have
bene arrested by har bodys . . that byinn of them any vittalis.
1535 CovERDALE Ps. cxxxi. 15, I Will blesschlr vytales with
increase, & wil satisfie htr poore with bred. 1547 Boorde
fntrod, Knoiul, 11.(1870) 127 In the whych is vsed good
fashion and good vytales. 1575 ^" Harvey Leiter-bk.
(Camden) 97 Mye miserable Mistrisse . . is oftentymes driven
very harde. .for her vittales and lodginge.
y. f:i4oo Melayne 1195 He garte dele his vetells then
Firste amaages oure wonded men. 1401 in Ellis Ori^.
iC*//. Ser. II. T, 15 We faylyth vitels and men. Ibid. i6They
mowe have godes and fytelles plente. c 148s J. Kay tr.
Caoursin's Siege of Rhodes P3 Also they lakked vytalles.
1510 Sel. Cases Crt, Star Chantber (Selden) 205 So he toke
189
fro many pore men their vitals to ther grete hurte. 1545
Brinklow Compl. ii. 13 In London and other placys ther be
many offended with the great price of vitells. 1599 Dallam
in Early I'oy. Lezmnt (Hakl. Soc.) 83 We could not gitt
any vitels. Ibid. 86 We ever had vitals reddie dreste for 3
dayes.
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