a province or government of France, bounded by Dauphine on the north, by Piedmont on the east, by the Mediterranean on the south, and by the river Rhone, which separates it from Languedoc, on the west. It is about 100 miles in length, and nearly as many in breadth.

PROVENDER originally signified a kind of vessel containing the measure of corn daily given to a horse, or other beast of labour, for his subsistence; but it is now generally used to signify the food for cattle, whatever it may consist of.