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Definition of Misfed
1. misfeed [v] - See also: misfeed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misfed
Literary usage of Misfed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"Of the atypical children examined in 1908, 60 per cent were misfed. The large
number of physical defects from which backward children suffer are, no doubt, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas: And by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas James Arnold, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1840)
"... circular at the plaintiffs offices, in which the plaintiff Chanter and Gray
were mentioned as partners in a patent for "a smoke-con- r^m'misfed'by ..."
3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1847)
"... just as he expected to make a mouthful of Tom, he misfed his aim, and his jaws
met with a crack which sounded like the report of a hundred muskets. ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1882)
"The vast proportion of these children die because they are misfed, the diseases
from which they suffer being caused by improper or insufficient food. ..."
5. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"... pins them down: But I Think only of the unnumbered broken hearts, The hunger
and the mortal strife for bread, Old age and youth alike mistaught, misfed, ..."
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