Meaning of Viand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An item of food.
   archaic
2. A choice dish.
   archaic
3. rice topping; any food eaten with rice as a part of a main course meal.
   Philippines

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Examples

“There was a time, when all the bodies members / Rebell'd againſt the Belly; thus accus'd it: / That onely like a Gulfe it did remaine / I'th midd'ſt a th'body, idle and vnactiue, / Still cubbording the Viand, neuer bearing / Like labour with the reſt, where th'other Inſtruments / Did ſee, and heare, deuiſe, inſtruct, walke, feele, / And mutually participate, did miniſter / Vnto the appetite; […]”

“The Motier and Lepelletier tables still groan with viands; roofs ringing with patriotic toasts.”

“[H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.”

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