Produce of the ground capable of being used as food. Obsolete.

The flesh of a fruit, nut, egg, etc., likened in texture to the flesh of animals; the edible pulp, kernel, yolk or white, etc., as opposed to the…

Contrasted with malt (see malt, n.1 2a): food (as opposed to drink). Now figurative in in meal or in malt and variants: in one form or another.

Anything that is eatable, or fit for food; esp. vegetables.

An eatable substance, an article of food (chiefly in plural).

= edible, adj. edible, n.

A collection of eatables; provisions for a slight repast or picnic; a portion of food carried by a labourer into the field for a meal. Also spec. in…