Verb (used with object), : The students hand-fed the baby monkeys with an eyedropper.    From Dictionary.com. 

That's why she was getting hand-fed out of that bottle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2008] Reference

A baby squirrel being hand-fed milk formula by a volunteer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pets and Wildlife also hit hard by Hurricane Ike] Reference

He hand-fed me cold chinese food and licked my lips afterward.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference

He also hand-fed a family of skunks marshmallows off the front steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books and Squirrel] Reference

I hand-fed him right off the tip of my obsessively washed index finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Nature is Nurture] Reference

I was close to the fire now, and saw that it was no hand-fed flame, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

And how tenderly she had held him, hand-fed him, sang siren melodies to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

Dubbed Chew Chew, the train-like bot was hand-fed a diet of pure sugar cubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecobot Eats Dead Flies for Fuel] Reference

The meat from the hand-fed, vegetarian bear was tender and rich with marbled fat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

Teh reel mastahs can uze teh Kitteh Psychic Network to get noms hand-fed to kitteh.    From Wordnik.com.  [And THIS Yoga pose is called - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

I could see at once that she had been hand-fed before, and that she understood my offer.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

The pig the choson one had been hand-fed for many months and had become something of a pet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killing The Pig] Reference

The animals in a penned off area of a rehabilitation facility had to be hand-fed three times a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2005] Reference

It is bad enough to be bottle-fed, physiologists tell us, but it is infinitely worse to be hand-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference

The animals are hand-fed and wouldn't run from people, even if they could get beyond the fence line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Markarian: Putting a Stop to Pay-Per-View and Pay-to-Kill Hunting] Reference

The cubs are carried about, played with, hand-fed treats, photographed, and in general, treated like pets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

They spent the rest of the meal with their heads down, focused on the game players, while Mom and Dad hand-fed them.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It’s peculiar and unnerving in a way to see so many young people walking around with cell phones and iPods in their ears..."] Reference

Without a beak to tear her food with, Beauty must be hand-fed strips of meat and has difficulty drinking and preening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nose Job] Reference

She boiled the eggs and deviled them; Ginny would eat them this afternoon while painting if Myra hand-fed them to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994] Reference

But even a wild chipmunk can be hand-fed with a little patience, if you try to fit his not-very-exact idea of immobility.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The hospital now desperately needs volunteers to help with some of the orphans."] Reference

Mbeki playfully hand-fed some chocolate cake to one of the journalists, and told the youth they were an inspiration to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Others, a bit older and accustomed to taking fish from a parent's throat, must be hand-fed until they can eat fish from a bowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Spill: Baby Animals Hit The Hardest (PHOTOS)] Reference

Method - potatoes may be planted by hand or with mechanical planters, which can be fully mechanical or hand-fed semi-automatic machines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 25] Reference

Infants may suffer from diarrhoea after being hand-fed by someone with dirty hands, or after having put dirty objects into their mouths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Her motivation is hand-fed treats of high-protein Purina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gwinnett Daily Post Headlines] Reference

According to the staff at the store, it needs to be hand-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [WPTV Top Stories] Reference

Incidentally, my HP Deskjet 4200 also handles poorly the hand-fed paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [LinuxQuestions.org] Reference

Well, heck, ED, they're being hand-fed by a failure and it's contagious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference

He's got to be hand-fed touchdowns, heaven forbid he have to work for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [MVN] Reference

The piglet was found abandoned in a forest in western Germany, and is now hand-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference

The animals had learned to associate humans with food after being hand-fed last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

According to Campbell, ballots are hand-fed into the computerized device and scanned.    From Wordnik.com.  [SIMCOE - Home] Reference

Satchel, my 7-year-old, and my husband, Warren, even hand-fed it flies from time to time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories] Reference

The two had lived much of their lives in captivity and had been hand-fed mostly human food.    From Wordnik.com.  [dispatch.com: RSS]

Carrots, lettuce, sweet potatoes and other kinds of fresh produce are hand-fed to the giraffes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference

He could not stand unaided and had to be hand-fed soft food but could not swallow without choking, the CEO said.    From Wordnik.com.  [iac world news feed] Reference

Ok, enough about that - far more interesting to most of you will be the fact I hand-fed a baby elephant tonight.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Next stop was Monkey Mia, which is renowned for the bottle nose dolphins that come to shore each morning to be hand-fed.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference