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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROV'ENDER, n. [L. vivo, to live, and from vivanda; Eng.viand.]
1. Dry food for beasts, usually meal, or a mixture of meal and cut straw or hay. In a more general sense, it may signify dry food of any kind.
2. Provisions; meat; food.
[Not used of food for man in New England.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: food for domestic livestock [syn: feed, provender]
2: a stock or supply of foods [syn: commissariat, provisions, provender, viands, victuals]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French provende, provendre, from Medieval Latin provenda, alteration of praebenda prebend Date: 14th century 1. dry food for domestic animals ; feed 2. food, victuals

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 animal fodder. 2 joc. food for human beings. Etymology: ME f. OF provendre, provende ult. f. L praebenda (see PREBEND)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Provender Prov"en*der, n. [OE. provende, F. provende, provisions, provender, fr. LL. praebenda (prae and pro being confused), a daily allowance of provisions, a prebend. See Prebend.] 1. Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed. ``Hay or other provender.'' --Mortimer. Good provender laboring horses would have. --Tusser. 2. Food or provisions. [R or Obs.]

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

prov'-en-der

(1) micpo', from obsolete capha', "to feed," fodder for cattle in general (Ge 24:25,32; 42:27; Jud 19:19,21);

(2) belil, from balal, "to mix": "Loweth the ox over his fodder?" (Job 6:5); belil chamits: "The young asses that till the ground shall eat savory (Hebrew "salted") provender" (Isa 30:24); this is fodder mixed with salt or aromatic herbs): The ordinary provender in Palestine, besides fresh pasturage, is tibn, i.e. straw broken on the threshing floor, kursenneh (Vetch, Vicia errilia), given especially to camels and milch cows; bran, for fattening and especially in cold weather; and, occasionally, hay made from the dried mixed grass and herbs which spring up luxuriously after the rains. The Circassian colonists East of the Jordan are teaching their neighbors the value of this food, so long neglected.

E. W. G. Masterman

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Dry food (as hay, corn, etc., for brutes), fodder, forage.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

He from whom any money is taken on the highway: perhaps provider, or provider. Cant.

Moby Thesaurus

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