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"To feed with small pieces of food."
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"(transitive, obsolete, rare) To feed with small pieces of food."
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}
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},
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"oblique",
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{
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"plural"
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"singular"
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},
{
"form": "morsiaus",
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"nominative",
"singular"
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"singular"
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