victualn.1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.(2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak.)He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. (Knolles.)There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand
Bare victual for the mowers. (Tennyson.)Short allowance of victual. (Longfellow.)2. Grain of any kind.(Jamieson.)v. t. To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship.()I must go victual Orleans forthwith. (Shak.)