Bible Dictionaries
Eat

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

of Eat

(2):

of Eat

(3):

(v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

(4):

(v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

(5):

(v. i.) To make one's way slowly.

(6):

(v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; - said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

(7):

(v. t.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Eat'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/eat.html. 1828.