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Monthly Archives: March 2011
2011-03-18 13:02:28 +0000
RT @FarmSanctuary is asking people to contact the USDA to protect downed pigs, sheep & goats before April 11, 2011 http://bit.ly/hOUmsQ
2011-03-18 12:44:45 +0000
Perhaps, at a certain point, restoring sanity means you just have to dare to take insane steps to do so.
2011-03-18 11:39:45 +0000
The action of feed, in its various senses. http://tumblr.com/x3f1t4ydpe
feeding, n.
1. The action of feed v., in its various senses.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care v. 42 Sio feding ðara sceapa.
c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 39 Þe fyrst ys a bodly fedyng.
14.. Epiph. in Tundale’s Vis. 120 Thys day is named Phagyphanye‥For thys word phagy‥Is seyd of fedyng.
c1475 Babees Bk. (Harl. 5086) (2002) i. 7 In youre fedynge luke goodly yee be sene.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBii, Pamperyng‥our bodyes by‥moche fedyng of delicate meates & drynkes.
1676 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 122 Skill in the feeding‥of singing-birds.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 285 According to its feeding on venemous or not venemous food, ‘tis wholesome or poysonous.
1803 Davy in Phil. Trans. XCIII. 272 The feeding of leather in the slow method of tanning.
1836 Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) viii. 75 There was not a gleam of‥anything but feeding in his whole visage.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such i. 15 A feeding-up into monstrosity.
1897 Encycl. Sport I. 404/2 Many aver that‥Alan Rotherham was the first to reduce the art of feeding to a science.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Companions ii. i. 253 This feeding I’m talking about‥is a name in the profession for working up to gags.
2.
a. concr. That which is eaten; food. Now rare.
1398 J. de Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietat. Rerum (1495) xviii. i. 736 Some beestys gadre store of mete and fedynge.
c1440 Promp. Parv. 152/2 Fedynge, or fode, pastum.
1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 3 Beoffe, mutton, porke, and veale‥is the common feedyng of‥poore persons.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 147 Will ye let the fry encrease, where the feeding failes?
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 148 His [the Pike’s] feeding is usually fish or frogs.
1866 Handy Horse Bk. 20 So should the horses feeding be augmented by one-third‥more than usual.
†b. to take feeding (of): to feed (upon). In quot. c1500 fig.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 298 Her of whom myn eyen toke theire fedyng.
†c. Nourishment, sustenance. Obs.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. Proheme f. iiii, Consyder yf‥the sicnes in the exteriall partes haue any fedyng from the interyall partes.
3. Grazing-ground or pasture land; pasturage, feeding-ground. Obs. exc. dial.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cix. 116 He‥ouer~throweth here feedinges [pasturaux].
1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 47 Alle the landys, medewes, pasturys, and fedyngys callyd Southwode.
1554–5 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 3 Lands or feedings, apt for milch kine.
1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged iii. §4 Kent‥in some things hath the best esteeme: as in‥feedings for Cattell.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. (1681) 31 The Spring and Autumn feeding, whereon six or eight Cattle usually grazed.
1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) i. 40 Sheep‥have fine feeding.
a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby’s Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 16 You turned your horse into my feeding.
2011-03-18 11:23:36 +0000
Again, unable to post to Tumblr. But I have prior posts & a theme I like. Anyone know how to migrate to something else, and ideas for where?
2011-03-17 16:11:05 +0000
RT @parisreview: I scarcely move a muscle, though inside IÛªm falling apart. ÛÒ new Roberto Bola̱o in the Spring Issue: http://tpr.ly/hMzWG7
2011-03-17 00:37:28 +0000
RT @toastbeard: “Art is a game between all people of all eras.” Duchamp
2011-03-16 12:46:14 +0000
RT @angadc: Reverse alchemy spreading through the air, land and sea. No longer Solve et Coagula, but what is joined together is separate …
2011-03-16 12:12:27 +0000
So excited to be seeing Godspeed You Black Emperor tonight, even though they give me palpitations and makes me teary-eyed http://ow.ly/4fyBT