feed apr on (fed a"prun)

In mach., an apron carrying material or feed to some part of a machine. feeder (fē'dėr), n. 1. One who or that which feeds, or supplies food or nourishment. IMG:content-1177.png:[blocks in formation] Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 5. 3. One who or an animal that eats or takes nourishment. IMG:content-1178.png:[blocks in formation] feeder. Have your worms well scoured, and not kept in sour and musty mo , for he [the barbel] is a curious [fastidious] I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 168. 41. A servant or dependent supported by his lord; a parasite. I will your very faithful feeder be, And buy it with your gold right suddenly. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 4. IMG:content-1179.png:[blocks in formation] 5. One who fattens cattle for slaughter.-6. That which feeds or supplies; anything that serves for the conveyance of material or supplies to, or furnishes communication with, something else: as, great rivers are valuable feeders of commerce; cro -roads and lanes are feeders to the highway. Dialects have always been the feeders rather than the channels of a literary language. Max Müller, Science of Language, p. 60. Specifically - (a) A fountain, stream, or channel that sup plies a main canal with water. (b) A branch or side railroad running into and increasing the busine of the main Shak., Tit. And., iv. 4. line. (c) In mining, a branch or spur falling into the main 21. Pasture-ground; grazing-land. His flocks, and bounds of feed , Are now on sale. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 4. 3. A meal, or the act of eating. [Archaic or low.] lode, and appearing to add to its width or richne ; a dropper. ( d ) Any device or contrivance for delivering to a machine the feed or materials to be operated upon, as the apron of a carder, the feed-wheel of a sewing-machine, the feeding device of a saw-mill, rail-machine, grain-mill, etc. (e) In organ - building, a small oblique bellows placed under (occasionally apart from) the large horizontal storage-bellows, and used to furnish air to the latter. The At feed or fountain, never had I found. mechanical power is applied to the feeder, not to the bel Milton, P. L., ix. 597. lows proper, though the steadine and pre ure of the For such pleasure, till that hour, wind depend solely upon the size and weighting of the latter. (f) In the at, cant, a subordinate rôle written to bring out the peculiarities of an important part. 7. One who feeds a machine, as a printing pre : as, pre men and feeders. See feeding, 4.-8. In entom., one of the organs composing the mouth-parts or trophi. Kirby.