Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Feed \Feed\, n.
   1. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder;
      pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed
      for sheep.

   2. A grazing or pasture ground. --Shak.

   3. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a
      meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.

   4. A meal, or the act of eating. [R.]

            For such pleasure till that hour At feed or fountain
            never had I found.                    --Milton.

   5. The water supplied to steam boilers.

   6. (Mach.)
      (a) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to
          be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing
          machine; or of producing progressive operation upon
          any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning
          lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the
          work.
      (b) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a
          steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of
          stones.
      (c) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is
          produced; a feed motion.

   {Feed bag}, a nose bag containing feed for a horse or mule.
      

   {Feed cloth}, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other
      fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc.

   {Feed door}, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal.

   {Feed head}.
      (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam
          boiler.
      (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which
          serves to render the casting more compact by its
          pressure; -- also called a {riser}, {deadhead}, or
          simply {feed} or {head} --Knight.

   {Feed heater}.
      (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for
          the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam.
      (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock.
          

   {Feed motion}, or {Feed gear} (Mach.), the train of mechanism
      that gives motion to the part that directly produces the
      feed in a machine.

   {Feed pipe}, a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam
      engine, etc., with water.

   {Feed pump}, a force pump for supplying water to a steam
      boiler, etc.

   {Feed regulator}, a device for graduating the operation of a
      feeder. --Knight.

   {Feed screw}, in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a
      regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work.

   {Feed water}, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc.

   {Feed wheel} (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See {Feeder}, n., 8.

Gear \Gear\, n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing, adornment,
   armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG. garaw[=i],
   garw[=i] ornament, dress. See {Yare}, and cf. {Garb} dress.]
   1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.

            Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser.

   2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer.

            Homely gear and common ware.          --Robynson
                                                  (More's
                                                  Utopia).

   3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff
      or material.

            Clad in a vesture of unknown gear.    --Spenser.

   4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.

   5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson.

   6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.]

            Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser.

   8. (Mech.)
      (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a
          bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
      (b) An apparatus for performing a special function;
          gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
      (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out
          of gear.

   9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st {Jeer}
      (b) .

   10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or
       Prov. Eng.] --Wright.

             That servant of his that confessed and uttered this
             gear was an honest man.              --Latimer.

   {Bever gear}. See {Bevel gear}.

   {Core gear}, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See {Mortise
      wheel}, under {Mortise}.

   {Expansion gear} (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for
      cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as
      to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the
      cut-off. See under {Expansion}.

   {Feed gear}. See {Feed motion}, under {Feed}, n.

   {Gear cutter}, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of
      gear wheels by cutting.

   {Gear wheel}, any cogwheel.

   {Running gear}. See under {Running}.

   {To throw} {in, or out of}, {gear} (Mach.), to connect or
      disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or
      out of, working relation.