aliment
- n a source of materials to nourish the body
- v give nourishment to
- A detailed description of personal diseases, for instance, however arresting the symptoms, rarely furnishes appetizing aliment for conversation; revelations of exotic fissures or .
- Pressmen could get no aliment from these reported phone-calls and telegrams; but when, next day, a number of Chinamen were shot down, singly, and for no apparent reason, in .
- Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the body.