victualing note (vitlingnot)

An order given to a seaman in the British navy by the paymaster, when he joins a ship, which is handed to the ship's steward as his authority for victualing the man. Simmonds. victualing-office (vit'l-ing-of"is), n. An office for supplying provisions and stores to the navy. [Eng.] No le renown'd than War. Milton , Sonnets, xi. 3. A female deity of the Greeks and Romans, the personification of succe in battle or in any active struggle. She is represented as a winged woman, often bearing as attributes a palm-branch and laurel crown, or a trumpet. The subject is a very frequent one in ancient art, from some of the noblest of antique sculpture down to vase-paintings and figurines. Among the most notable examples are the reliefs from the balustrade of the temple of Wingle Victory at Athens, one of which is the well-known figure entitled "Victory Loosing her Sandal," and the magnificent statue called the "Victory of Samothrace," a Greek original of the fourth century B. с., attributed to the school of Scopas, found in the island of Samothrace, where it stood on a pedestal representing the prow of a trireme, and now one of the chief ornaments of the Louvre Museum. See Nike, cut in next column, and cut under Peloponnesian. Why then we will to the greenwood gang, For we have no vittles to dine. Robin Hood and the Stranger (Child's Ballads, V. 405). My pig likes a dinner as well as a breakfast. No meal time, and no sort of victuals , ever seems to come ami to my pig. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xix. There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the mowers. Tennyson, Geraint and Enid. 2. Any sort of grain or corn. [Scotch.] Broken victuals. See broken meat, under broken. victual (vit'l), v.; pret. and pp. victualed, vic tualled, ppr. victualing, victualling. [With spelling altered as in the noun; articularly three holding this vitender To supply or store with vietuals or provisions victories , three festoons three heads, on a marble coffin, with imperfect Greek in- script ions under them. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 170. Cadmean, moral, Pyrrhic victory. See the adjectives. for subsistence; provide with stores of food. Thy loving voyage Is but for two months victuall'd . found wild in elevated Bolivia Chili, and is much hunted for its wool and flesh. It is one of the smaller kinds, standing about 30 inches at the withers. and of variegated coloration. It has as yet resisted all Shak., As you Like it, v. 4. 198. attempts to reduce it to domestication. The short soft vicugna wool is very valuable, and was formerly much used for making fine ti ues and delicate fabrics. It is le used Vicugna (Auchenia vicuna). now, what is known in the trade as vicugna (or viguna ) wool being a mixture of wool and cotton.