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Webster 1913 Edition

Eat

Eat

(ēt)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Ate
(āt; 277)
,
Obsolescent & Colloq.
Eat
(ĕt)
;
p. p.
Eaten
(ēt′’n)
,
Obs. or Colloq.
Eat
(ĕt);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Eating
.]
[OE.
eten
, AS.
etan
; akin to OS.
etan
, OFries.
eta
, D.
eten
, OHG.
ezzan
, G.
essen
, Icel.
eta
, Sw.
äta
, Dan.
æde
, Goth.
itan
, Ir. & Gael.
ith
, W.
ysu
, L.
edere
, Gr.
ἔδειν
, Skr.
ad
. √6. Cf.
Etch
,
Fret
to rub,
Edible
.]
1.
To chew and swallow as food; to devour; – said especially of food not liquid;
as, to
eat
bread
.
“To eat grass as oxen.”
Dan. iv. 25.
They . . .
ate
the sacrifices of the dead.
Ps. cvi. 28.
The lean . . . did
eat
up the first seven fat kine.
Gen. xli. 20.
The lion had not
eaten
the carcass.
1 Kings xiii. 28.
With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets
eat
.
Milton.
The island princes overbold
Have
eat
our substance.
Tennyson.
His wretched estate is
eaten
up with mortgages.
Thackeray.
2.
To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
Syn. – To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.

Eat

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
He did
eat
continually at the king’s table.
2 Sam. ix. 13.
2.
To taste or relish;
as, it
eats
like tender beef
.
3.
To make one's way slowly.
To eat
,
To eat in
or
To eat into
,
to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume.
“A sword laid by, which eats into itself.”
Byron.
–
To eat to windward
(Naut.)
,
to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; – said of a vessel.

Webster 1828 Edition

Eat

EAT

,
Verb.
T.
pret. ate; pp. eat or eaten. [L. edo, esse, esum.]
1.
To bite or chew and swallow, as food.
Men eat flesh and vegetables.
They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen. Dan.4.
2.
To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing. We say a cancer eats the flesh.
3.
To consume; to waste.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them. Ecc.5.
4.
To enjoy.
If ye be willing and obedient,ye shall eat the good of the land. Is.1.
5.
To consume; to oppress.
Who eat up my people as they eat bread. Ps.14.
6.
To feast.
Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. Is.22.
In scripture, to eat the flesh of Christ, is to believe on him and be nourished by faith.
To eat one's words, is to swallow back; to take back what has been uttered; to retract.

EAT

,
Verb.
I.
To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam.
Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners. Matt.9.
1.
To take food; to be maintained in food.
To eat, or to eat in or into, is to make way by corrosion; to gnaw, to enter by gradually wearing or separating the parts of a substance. A cancer eats into the flesh.
Their word will eat as doth a canker. 2 Tim.2.
To eat out, to consume.
Their word will eat out the vitals of religion, corrupt and destroy it.

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