Diet

·vi To Eat; to take one's meals.

II. Diet ·vt To cause to take food; to Feed.

III. Diet ·add. ·noun Any of various national or local assemblies;.

IV. Diet ·add. ·noun The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, or Hungary.

V. Diet ·add. ·noun The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province.

VI. Diet ·add. ·noun The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 - 66).

VII. Diet ·noun Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

VIII. Diet ·vi To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

IX. Diet ·vt To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

X. Diet ·noun A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

XI. Diet ·add. ·noun Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, ·etc.

XII. Diet ·noun 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.

XIII. Diet ·add. ·noun In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial Diet or Reichstag) or a small, local, or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet, or Hoftag).

XIV. Diet ·add. ·noun The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government.