Allowance of provision; supply of food, the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods), verb_ eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight, follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons, transitive verb_ rare To cause to take food; to feed, To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of, intransitive verb_ To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly, obsolete To eat; to take one's meals