ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale;
carouse &c (make merry) 840; eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork,
banquet.
break bread, break one's fast; breakfast, lunch, dine, take tea, sup.
drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill
[Slang], chugalug [Slang], tipple &c (be drunken) 959; empty one's glass, drain the cup;
toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle.
purvey &c 637.
Adj. eatable, edible, esculent † , comestible, alimentary; cereal, cibarious † ; dietetic;
culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent † ; bibulous.
omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous;
ichthyivorous; omophagic, omophagous; pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous.
Phr. across the walnuts and the wine [Tennyson]; blessed hour of our dinners! [O.
Meredith]; now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both! [Macbeth]; who
can cloy the hungry edge of appetite? [Richard II],
299. Excretion -- N. excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion,
secretion, effusion, extravasation [Med.], ecchymosis [Med.]; evacuation, dejection,
faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap [Vulg.]; bloody flux; cacation † ; coeliac-flux, coeliacpassion;
dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation † , exudation; diaphoresis; sewage;
eccrinology [Med.].
saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism † , salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta [Biol.],
sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae &c (uncleanness) 653 [Lat.].
hemorrhage, bleeding; outpouring &c (egress) 295.
V. excrete &c (eject) 297; emanate &c (come out) 295.
300. [Forcible ingress.] Insertion -- N. insertion, implantation, introduction; insinuation
&c (intervention) 228; planting, &c v.; injection, inoculation, importation, infusion;
forcible ingress &c 294; immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath &c
(water) 337; interment &c 363.
clyster [Med.], enema, glyster † , lavage, lavement † .
V. insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject &c 298; infuse,
instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue.
graft, ingraft † , bud, plant, implant; dovetail.
obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in,
drop in, put in; impact; empierce † &c (make a hole) 260 [Obs.].
imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak &c (water) 337; dip, plunge &c 310.
bury &c (inter) 363.
insert itself, lodge itself &c; plunge in medias res.
Adj. inserted &c v..
301. [Forcible egress.] Extraction -- N. extraction; extracting &c v.; removal,
elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution.
evulsion † , avulsion † ; wrench; expression, squeezing; extirpation, extermination;
ejection &c 297; export &c (egress) 295.
extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers.