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Ensilage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

2. The fodder preserved in a silo.

Ensilage [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To preserve in a silo; as, to ensilage cornstalks.

Ensilaged [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Ensilage

Provision Roget’s Thesaurus §637

N. provision, supply, grist, grist for the mill, # subvention, resources, groceries, grocery, providing, purveyance, reinforcement, reenforcement, commissariat, provender, ensilage, viaticum, caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur, jackal, pelican, sutler, grocery shop, grocery store

V. provide, make provision, make due provision for, lay in, lay in a stock, lay in a store, supply, suppeditate|, furnish, find, find one in, arm, cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage, beat up for, stock, stock with, make good, replenish, fill, fill up, recruit, feed, have in store, have in reserve, keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep on hand, have to fall back upon, store, provide against a rainy day

Preservation Roget’s Thesaurus §670

N. preservation, safe-keeping, conservation, maintenance, support, susteritation, conservatism, vis conservatrix, salvation, prophylaxis, preserver, preservative, additive, antibiotics, antifungals, biocide, hygiastics, hygiantics, cover, drugget, cordon sanitaire, canning, ensilage, tinned goods, canned goods, snake oil, spider webs, cure-all, laetrile, charm

V. preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold, keep up, keep alive, refrigerate, keep on ice, not willingly let die, bank up, nurse, save, rescue, be safe, make safe, take care of, guard, stare super antiquas vias, hold one's own, hold one's ground, stand one's ground, embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize|, bottle, pot, tin, can, sterilize, pasteurize, radiate, dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate, freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze, husband

Adj. preserving, conservative, prophylactic, preservatory, preservative, hygienic, preserved, unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged, unmarred, safe, safe and sound, intact, with a whole skin

Phr. nolumus leges angliae mutari