- (v.t.) To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions or the like.
- (v.t.) To procure; to get.
- (v.i.) To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
- (v.i.) To pander; -- with to.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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