viand

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Karl and Caspar had refrained from the uncooked viand until their appetite could resist no longer; and then the raw flesh of the bear became palatable enough.

From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne

And so, for four months thereafter, we had to do penance for the joke, on that not very luxurious viand "dry porridge."

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

I was near enough to bring him down; and, should the rifle prove to have been properly loaded, I was likely to have for my breakfast the choicest viand of the mountain region of America.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

A large species of sea-eel, furnishing a somewhat vile viand, but eatable when strongly curried.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Sov'reign solids of nature, Solar seeds of the sphere, Olympian viand Surprising as rare.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson