An offering consisting of food (esp. cereal). In later use also: an offering consisting of animal flesh.

Roman History. A sacrifice of the nature of a feast, in which images of the gods were placed on couches with food before them as if for them to eat.

Food offered to a god or an image, often afterwards shared among devotees; a portion of this.

A cake or ball of rice offered to the memory of one's ancestors, esp. as part of funerary rites. Also: the rite in which these rice balls are…