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food, provisions, most commonly in the plural, " victuals." The word and its See also:pronunciation came into See also:English from the O. Fr. vitaille. The See also:modern See also:French and English spelling are due to a pedantic approximation to the Latin See also:original, victualia, a neuter plural substantive formed from victualis, victus, nourishment, provisions (vivere, to live). The most See also:familiar use of the See also:term is in " licensed victualler," to which the Licensing See also:Act 1872 (§ 27) has applied the wide significance of any See also:person selling any intoxicating liquor under a See also:licence from a See also:justice of the See also:peace. Properly a " victualling See also:house" is one where persons are provided with food and drink but not lodgings, and is thus distinct from an See also:inn, which also provides the last. VICUGItA, one of the two See also:wild living See also:South See also:American re- presentatives of the See also:camel-tribe, a Camelidae (see See also:TYLOPODA). See also:Head of Vicugna. From its relative the See also:guanaco the vicugna (Lama vicunia) differs by its inferior stature, more slender build and shorter head, as well as by the See also:absence of See also:bare patches or callosities on the See also:hind limbs. The See also:general See also:colour of the woolly coat is See also:orange-red. Vicugnas live in herds on the See also:bleak and elevated parts of the See also:mountain range bordering the region of perpetual See also:snow, amidst rocks and precipices, occurring in various parts of See also:Peru, in the See also:southern See also:part of See also:Ecuador, and as far south as the See also:middle of See also:Bolivia. The See also:wool is extremely delicate and soft, and highly valued for the purposes of See also:weaving, but the quantity which each See also:animal produces is not See also:great.

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