Diet /(?)/

Di·et

Diet

n.
  1. Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
  2. A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
    To fast like one that takes diet.

Phrases & Compounds
Diet kitchen
a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

Diet

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Dieted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dieting

  1. To cause to take food; to feed. [R.]
  2. To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
    She diets him with fasting every day.

Diet

v. i.
  1. To eat; to take one's meals. [Obs.]
    Let him . . . diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he traveleth.
  2. To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

Diet

n.
  1. A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.